Whatever happened to Cait Sith and Atomos?

[Alhanelem]

Such a major addition to the game should not really placed at such a seemingly low priority.

[Xerius]

Greetings summoners,

The development team has not forgotten about the implementation of Cait Sith and Atomos as new avatars; however, when it comes to job related content they are currently prioritizing adjustments and merit point categories for geomancer and rune fencer, as well as the new special abilities.
(They are prioritizing the new special abilities because they are being added to all jobs.)

With that said however, we are planning to implement Cait Sith and Atomos at the same time.

We mentioned this previously, but Caith Sith will be a type of avatar that will fight alongside you, while Atomos will be a special type of avatar similar to Odin and Alexander.

Once we have some new information to share on the status of these two new avatars we will be sure to let you all know!

Well, at least they confirmed that SMN is on the bottom of the priority list.

[Trumpy]

Obviously geo and run had been in the picture a while just unbeknownst to us. Its not like they just decided to add the jobs a few months before the expansion came out. I am quite happy they are addin these new summons, and i am disappointed it is takin so long but i feel like im the only one not butt hurt that they arent released yet.

[Babekeke]

Atomos will be a special type of avatar similar to Odin and Alexander.

Can it just be a special avatar similar to Alexander please? Alex was brilliant before the nerf-bat hit us, and is still somewhat useful now, whereas Odin was never anything other than a bit of fun during an exp pt in abyssea.

[Umisame]

Greetings summoners,

The development team has not forgotten about the implementation of Cait Sith and Atomos as new avatars; however, when it comes to job related content they are currently prioritizing adjustments and merit point categories for geomancer and rune fencer, as well as the new special abilities.
(They are prioritizing the new special abilities because they are being added to all jobs.)

With that said however, we are planning to implement Cait Sith and Atomos at the same time.

We mentioned this previously, but Caith Sith will be a type of avatar that will fight alongside you, while Atomos will be a special type of avatar similar to Odin and Alexander.

Once we have some new information to share on the status of these two new avatars we will be sure to let you all know!

New grips for smns are nice and Cait Sith + Atomos could be great if SE adds them "soon". But i would like to know if there are plans to fix summoner job, is it even a priority for SE?

[Babekeke]

New grips for smns are nice and Cait Sith + Atomos could be great if SE adds them "soon". But i would like to know if there are plans to fix summoner job, is it even a priority for SE?

No, no it's not.

SMN only flags up as a priority to SE, if it has something useful or over-powered. Right now, they seem to have eliminated all of these, until we get our new 2-hour. If that turns out to be useful in anyway, watch it get nerfed within days!.

[solodragon1984]

On a scale 1 to 100 on priority SMN is a -1 cause that's how I've been feeling. Cause look at all the NERF we get as SMN yet nothing good is added and when they "Say" going to add new summons takes them... How long it been going on? yet they said was going to add new jobs AFTER they said anything on new summons and only thing they did on SMN was NERF it instead of making it better.
When they DO add something new for SMN they start to NERF it and make it weak or super useless or they add a new summon (Alex) that WAS good at start BUT they NERF it cause people are using it more for Nyzul Isle like scholars "Embrava Spell" that uses 2hr (at the time) just to cast it.

but anyways thanks for letting me rant.

[Jerbob]

...Atomos will be a special type of avatar similar to Odin and Alexander...

I'm sorry, but we already have enough pointlessly restricted "avatars", we don't need any more atrocities on our spell list. If resources are not available to make an actual avatar, you need more resources. I'm still disgusted by Odin and Alexander. People saw it for a cop-out back then, and it'll still be a cop-out for Atomos.

I don't like to be completely negative if I don't have to be, and I'm sorry if this is rude, but it is frustrating, and this is all pretty much unacceptable.

[Babekeke]

I'm sorry, but we already have enough pointlessly restricted "avatars", we don't need any more atrocities on our spell list. If resources are not available to make an actual avatar, you need more resources. I'm still disgusted by Odin and Alexander. People saw it for a cop-out back then, and it'll still be a cop-out for Atomos.

I don't like to be completely negative if I don't have to be, and I'm sorry if this is rude, but it is frustrating, and this is all pretty much unacceptable.

I'll be satisfied as long as it offers something meaningful to current content. For some reason I imagine it might be some sort of enfeebling, as that's something that we don't have right now. But if NMs can be immune/highly resistant, what's the point?

My main gripe with these 'special' avatars, is that it's 1 use then over, whereas you could get 3-4 blasts with any other avatar. IMO they would work better if we hit AF, cast them, then have to BP. I'd be fine if the BP itself dismissed the avatar, and it was on say a 10-min timer so it can't be re-cast again during that AF, but AF should stay active, so we can then use another avatar's AF BP.

[CrAZYVIC]

I hope we can do something like this with Atomos, or will be Dissapointed with the Dev team.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDd-7NrxkU