Fireball Psynergy series

Fireball, Fire Orb, and Inferno, originally named Fire, Fireball, and Inferno in The Lost Age, are a series of Mars attack Psynergy featured in all three games. It is available to the Guard Class series (Guard onwards). Hence, in the GBA series, only Garet can use this series of Psynergy. In Dark Dawn it is obtainable in the Brute line, and is the first ability in the line can always be used by Tyrell, regardless of class, as it now has utility uses.



Psynergy spells
Fire: “Attack with a scorching fireball.”: This costs 6 Psynergy Points, has a base power of 35, and has a range of three targets. A bunch of balls of fire spread out from the user’s hand and gather into the enemies. It is available at level 4.

Fireball: “Attack with a scorching fireball.”: This costs 12 Psynergy Points, has a base power of 65, and has a range of five targets. A larger bunch of balls of fire spread out from the user’s hand and gather into the enemies. It is available at level 14.

Inferno: “Attack with a scorching fireball.”: This costs 23 Psynergy Points, has a base power of 140, and has a range of five targets. A mass of balls of fire spread out from the user’s hand and gather into the enemies. It is available at level 36.

Analysis
'' Being available early in the game, and being both slightly more expensive and more powerful than the Flare Psynergy series, the Fire series may be seen as an upgrade to the Flare series. Similarly, the Volcano Psynergy series can be seen as an upgrade to Fire series (although Volcano targets less enemies). While it is largely up to player preference as to which of these three would be used, due to Pyroclasm being obtained 12 levels after Inferno, it is quite likely that this will see some use in the meantime if the player intends to use Garet as a multi-target attacker.

In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
One of the battle scenes showcased in E3 2010 trailers for Golden Sun: Dark Dawn shows Tyrell using a Psynergy spell that appears to be a Psynergy from this series in full 3D. Furthermore, a utility Psynergy named Fireball, which is possibly the same spell, is also used often in the trailers.

Fireball is used to activate special "switches", to burn objects (clearing the way for example) or attack units (such as forcing djinni from their often high-ledged place).

Concerning character classes, Fireball psynergy itself is now partly available to the Brute class series and permanently to Tyrell and Eoleo. However, the complete psynergy series is only useable by the Brute class series. It should be noted that while Inferno remains at a cost of 23 and a range of five targets, and Fire Orb is a renaming of the original Fireball but remains at a cost of 12 and a range of five targets, Fireball is different from the original Fire in that it is now single-target.