Maybe this has been thought of before by the workers at KI, but I've been curious on how balance counts as some type of class or element. I mean if balance borrows from all other schools, as it appears to do, why do some of their attacks seem to treat balance as if it were an element? Judgment, scorpion, locust swarm, and the windstorm spells can fit into other categories. Like, why not judgment be seen as a myth spell for balance students? Or how about the locust swarm be viewed as a death spell? If balance is treated as its own element, it is given an opportunity to cut through all defenses of other schools. Which seems strange considering it is a blend of other schools. Wouldn't their spells be better off if applied to different classes? This would fit well with the description of balance being the school which is supposed to be that one truly powerful school which borrows from all others. Power Nova obviously can be seen as a fire element for balance students. Why have balance as an element? It seems odd.
Given their spells like spirit blade, trap, elemental blade, trap, the school would probably be seen as more consistent if all of their attacks were just applied to other elements instead of some of them being viewed as a balance element spell.
You've answered part of your own question, Balance is just that balance, it contains aspects of both elemental and spirit schools, and is able to support or defend against both. As the seventh primary school it is both a blend and its own realm of mastery. Balance as a school inflicts pure physical damage bypassing any elemental or spiritual boost or resists; so it provides an option that allows one to not choose one or the other, but neither and both.
