Arcanist (Summoner) Summon/Pet Control

I'm just curious to see how the community wants to see pets implemented. When it comes to summons/pets in other MMOs you are faced (generally) with two choices. Either the player will have large control over their pet; when it uses skills/spells, when it engages, what type of stance it's in (offensive, defensive, passive), and even stat allocation. Or, the player is supported by an AI that is, hopefully, intuitive enough to adapt to a changing battle. Each have their own benefits, especially with how the class system is designed for FFXIV.

If you prefer a summon/pet system requiring more hands on from the player - like this post.

If you would rather the summon have an intuitive AI that enables you to summon and simply allow it to interact with the situation - like this post.

I wonder if you can feed Carbuncle to buff it?

the combat system so far kinda reminds me of Aion... so I'm half expecting myself to think that Summoner will play like the one on Aion >.> I'm hoping I' wrong lol

I dont know how the summoning system is going to work. can't actually cast a vote on it right now

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Originally Posted by Andrien

I dont know how the summoning system is going to work. can't actually cast a vote on it right now

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No preference for what you'd like to see? If you've experienced a particular mechanic that isn't like either of the two I've described I'd love to know about it. :)

I'm not sure yet how's it gonna be like but maybe something like in XI but better. Just wait for Tokyo game show, am sure they will show us some summoner gameplay and the 2nd new class/job as well.

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Originally Posted by TTred

No preference for what you'd like to see? If you've experienced a particular mechanic that isn't like either of the two I've described I'd love to know about it. :)

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Well the concept art of summoner reminded me of Yuna in Dissidia 012. So with that in mind I predict it'll be more action-centric. We'll get actions that will mimic the primals power similar how it worked with Yuna in Dissidia, or we get separate action tabs for them.

[QUOTE=Andrien;811869]Well the concept art of summoner reminded me of Yuna in Dissidia 012. So with that in mind I predict it'll be more action-centric. We'll get actions that will mimic the primals power similar how it worked with Yuna in Dissidia, or we get a separate action tabs for them.[/QUOTE

I've Hope it dosent go in that deriction, because if that's the case then XI summoning system it's much better.

you might be right but let's hope it dosent go that way>.<

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Originally Posted by Yukagama

I've Hope it dosent go in that deriction, because if that's the case then XI summoning system it's much better.

you might be right but let's hope it dosent go that way>.<

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that might be just for primals though. For regular summons I bet it'll be like XI or like XII.