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If we are trying to devise a reason for fireballs being optimal I would suggest this: continuous mana output is hard and so is projecting magic too far from your body. This will lead to the need for "throwing" some condensed object. Some kind of deformed ball is actually pretty logical for a thing that you want to easily mold and throw, not even speaking about compression.
As for the firepower, of course if it is literally a puff of fire it has almost no damaging properties. For all we know it might be a highly heated compressed air or a ball of napalm (actually the fireballs are mostly behaving as a mix between the two).
As for XYBall being the basic technique, it might be something like basic techniques comprising of wrapping your mana around the thing with a string attached, let it compress a bit on it's own and then fling it with the string (while letting go).
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