Summoning Magic Gear

[Babekeke]

Personally, I was not against reducing the duration to 60 seconds. But making 60 seconds require an unachieveable (or even barely achieveable) amount of summon magic was too far. Why they couldn't just make it a flat 60 seconds is beyond me.

They didn't make it a flat 60 seconds, as otherwise all the smn mules that everyone took to do ADL would never even have to buy/earn a single spirit/avatar since 0 skill would give them 60 sec. I'd have settled for 500 skill cap for 60 sec though as then a SMN would at least need to skill up/buy gear to hit cap.

[Trumpy]

Sooooooo, this doesnt mean they may be adding more skill gear in the future to obtain 600 summoning skill at some point?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post371824

[Mokeil]

Sooooooo, this doesnt mean they may be adding more skill gear in the future to obtain 600 summoning skill at some point?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post371824

The same way we were supposed to get Cait Sith?

Cheap, shot, I know...

But seriously? I'm willing to give them a bit of leeway here - to see what these grips are going to be like, and all. However, ultimately, at this point? All the pretty promises in the world mean nothing until they get implemented.

[Babekeke]

Sooooooo, this doesnt mean they may be adding more skill gear in the future to obtain 600 summoning skill at some point?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post371824

First, there is a question about the cap on summoning skill being 600 being a mistake; however, this is the correct number. While it might not be currently possible to reach this number, the development team set the cap to 600, so consider that there may be room to increase this in the future.

No it doesn't. Not really. May does not translate to will. Even if it did say there will be room to increase this in the future, it wouldn't mean that they would do it, just that it is possible.

[Trumpy]

But you guys are sayin they wont (think some posts above said SE said they wouldnt, been a while since i read the thread) and im sayin dont rule it out lol.

I said may in my post not will, but go ahead and take it like i said will (not trying to be an ass here). And yea i know the whole Pet: treasure hunter debacle where they said they would possibly add it later then denied even sayin that.

Cait sith isnt a cheap shot at all towards me lol i dont work for SE. Cait is comin tho, i know i know been a long time but it is, I am with you i want them new avatars too.

[Alhanelem]

They didn't make it a flat 60 seconds, as otherwise all the smn mules that everyone took to do ADL would never even have to buy/earn a single spirit/avatar since 0 skill would give them 60 sec. I'd have settled for 500 skill cap for 60 sec though as then a SMN would at least need to skill up/buy gear to hit cap.

uh, so what? they're already reducing the max duration by 30 seconds. It's still modified by remaining MP. It shouldn't be based on summon skill at all.