[dev1091] Job Adjustments: Summoner

[Alhanelem]

I need to point out several errors in the Job Adjustments.

You use 'error', meaning unintentional mistake, but you really mean "I need to point out several things I don't like in the Job Adjustments."

You are offering 5% per merit, for 25% max. This is on summoning, which takes at most 10 seconds without wearing haste gear or fast cast gear. So if you wear terrible armors, you can merit a reduction of 2 seconds for 5 merits. This is beyond retarded and no other job has merits that give a gain less than 1 second reduction.

Umm, what? I would LOVE fast cast for summoning magic. You know how hard it can be to summon-kite various monsters with enhanced movement speed? This would make things like that easier. You don't look at it in seconds, you look at it in percent. Most job merits don't reduce a recast time by 25%. 2 seconds off an 8 second cast time is signfiicant. I don't know how you can't see that.

They are permanently lowering the perp cost of spirits, so the old merit is irrelevant. That's why they invented the new one.

It's practically impossible to balance spirits and avatars perfectly- One is always going to be at least slightly better than the other and the other will not get used. Since avatars are the main part of the job, obviously it should be those that are better. However, it would be rash and silly to jut "delete" the spirits, and virtually no other content in the game that has been released has ever been "deleted." Even in their current state, they have some uses.