Iris Havengard Current Progress

Wow, somehow I completely missed the part in your original post about mixing and matching. I remember the sentence directly before and the sentence directly after, so I have no clue how I misread that.  My mental model was still closer to FF6Fanatic's idea.  So effectively, my comments were directed towards nobody's idea at all.

Without having to commit entirely to an element, I can see us being able to give the Espers a bunch more variety, particularly in the case of Espers like Maduin.  I still feel like non-elemental attacks will be most common, but not to the point of overtaking everything else anymore.  There's still some Espers I'm not sure about, but that's not a huge deal as I'm sure you'll have more ideas than I do about that.  With one element per Esper, I feel most of the thematic choices would have to be major stretches for this to work, but with this idea it should be just fine.

I like the idea of having individual overflow repercussions better as well.  I suggested something simple for your sake.

I guess once the ability itself is coded, we can put together a table of ideas for what the abilities should be.