[suggestion] Summoners feel off.

[Fyrebrand]

When people hear you can be a "summoner" in FFXIV, they expect it to be like the summoner class in other Final Fantasy games. They expect to call in a 30 foot demi-god that fills the area with a flashy cinematic and nukes the entire zone with 99999 damage to all enemies. Summons, as they existed in offline FF games, have no place whatsoever in an MMORPG, however.

I can empathize with feeling underwhelmed by the less-than-amazing "egi" creatures, but you can't have twenty full-size Ifrits stomping around in front of the market boards. Heck, I've heard complaints about the number of tiny little carbuncles running around.

I suppose they could have gone a different route and simply not made summoner a pet-centric class. But, then you just have another offensive caster, with brief spell animations that look vaguely like monster shapes. I doubt anyone would be happy with that either.

[Gogashi]

@Fyrebrand: Yeah I get what you are saying and I understand that you can't have cool CS like cinematic's and I don't mind the pet system but they feel like an after thought. They don't hit that hard and each only have 4 skills plus the enkindle I was hoping that the summons would be the main damage point not DoT's.

[Saoiray]

Summons, as they existed in offline FF games, have no place whatsoever in an MMORPG, however.

Can't say I agree with you. People are thinking of how Summoner worked in Final Fantasy XI (which was a MMORPG btw) and other games, such as 4Story. What people dislike is when a class has a weak pet and your only abilities appear to be DoT. Another complaint of most people is that the class feels pointless compared to playing anything else and summons, the way they are currently designed, don't do much damage and have no/few support abilities. Nobody wants them to be OP but they do want a little more functionality.

Btw, here is a list of abilities that Summoner used to have in FFXI after obtaining everything. You'll notice it gave them a lot of options and focused more on the pet than the individual.