Summoning Magic Gear

[Alhanelem]

I have a question, when SE decided to re-work Perfect Defense that you need 600 summoning magic to get the full effect from it, and also said that gear was gonna be released to help us see that number.

Where is this gear they speak of? I've complained about this before that our 2hr is the only one is locked where we can't use the full power of it while all other jobs don't have to worry about needing a skill level they can't obtain to use.

Anyones thoughts on this?

They never promised this gear. They said so themselves. Setting the skill to that value wasn't a guarantee or promise that gear would be made avialable to achieve that value within any certain period of time.

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.

[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.

[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.