Quote Originally Posted by Korpg View Post
Bolded is what is implied. They were never there to be long term solution of being a SMN. So, they left it as is. If any SMN doesn't have all the avatars by the time they reach 75, then they are playing the job wrong.

Spirits are fine as they are, because they were not designed to be end-all in SMN. Just be glad that they haven't increased perp cost on them to keep them out when we do summon them for Elemental Siphon.
Exactly.

People seem to have forgotten, or just weren't around back then.... Spirits were there to fill the void when you didn't have all your avatars. Because frankly, back then, it was't easy to actually HAVE all your avatars. Siphon gave them a nice purpose again (Aside from a quick OMG summon something now so I live cause I got aggro lolwtfbbq1!!1!).

If they make any changes to these things, really it should be to update the AI to not spam the same Debuffs over and over (burn, burn burn burn burn burn.. oh yeah... fire 3!) and to add the newer high level spells to their repertoire. Making them closer to be on par with avatars? No thanks, no thanks in any shape, form, or way. We have avatars for a reason, they are our bread and butter. Let our spirits be our salt and pepper.... no our salt. Just enough for taste... too much and it's bad for you.