Summoner Petition for Carbuncle!!! Sign here!

[MartaDemireux]

It was stated a while back in a live letter that summoner would NOT have carbuncle. I have a feeling that there will be a "Summon" ability, not "Summon Carbuncle" specifically.. This gives them the ability to restrict carbuncle from branched jobs. If not, Arcanist, Scholar AND Summoner would have Carbuncle, which doesn't make a lot of sense. So, I think "Summon" would bring up Carbuncle for Arcanist, the fairy for Scholar, and a primal for Summoner... How exactly will it work? Well, we'll just have to wait and see.

They just have to restrict the class ability from the job. In the current beta build every ability has listed what class and what job can use it. It's how people found out that jobs like BLM and WHM won't be using the same abilities as before (BLM now gets ARC + a mystery class, likely ACN, WHM gets THM + a mystery class, likely ACN).

Carbuncle was a free mp cost smn and u can farm with it pretty much like a guardian auto attack i think pretty useful smn should be able to smn carby its an extension of arcanist.

Well therein lies the exact reason why SMN shouldn't have carbuncle. If you want to solo and farm items, you'll be using Arcanist for access to other class abilities like cure, protect, stoneskin, second wind etc. Carbuncle is really for solo play (it has a "tank mode") and that's what classes are for. You'll want to be on SMN for party play, and then you'll be wanting to do as much damage as possible. You won't be soloing on SMN since almost every job is better at soloing as its base class.