Originally Posted by
solracht
There are some spells where I, II, III tiers would make sense because the higher tier simply replaces the lower one (before you take traits into account at least...) but there are other cases where the spells serve completely different purposes and they could use different names.
Stone II is a nuke, Stone I is a debuff
Aero II is a stronger Aero I
Cure II is a stronger Cure I
Cure III is an AoE heal, Cure II is a single target heal
Medica II is an AoE heal + regen, Medica I is an AoE heal
etc
Some naming consistency would be nice I guess but ultimately I don't really care.