Summoner Memories

[Shuon]

does the OP have any idea how long it took SE to make avatar damage even viable back in ffxi, and how smn was just a mp barrel and used as healer pretty much all the way?

...and their astral flows... i just realised how diamond dust looked worse than blizzard ii in this game lol >.>;;

[Dean86]

With the graphics engine this game has. Summoner could of looked amazing. It's a shame.

[BalthierLove]

Yeah.... I don't like FFXIV summoners too much either, has nothing to do with their size (Although it would be nice if they were a bit bigger) but their design.... I just don't like it. Hopefully Egis get better with content updates.

[Niko_Kishiko]

...and their astral flows... i just realised how diamond dust looked worse than blizzard ii in this game lol >.>;;

Final Fantasy XI was released in May 16, 2002. Why you would compare the graphics of a game that old with xiv is beyond me.

Also, I didn't bash what summoner is in this game. It seems kinda neat. I just thought it would be fun to remember how it was in xi since many xiv players came from xi. This is a mmorpg and I imagine there will be more summons for xiv summoner in the future. Hopefully it will get better and better. They could put in elementals for summoner to summon and even Fenrir and all the other summons from previous Final Fantasy games and maybe something we haven't even imagined yet. I just hope it gets better so more summoners can be excited about their summons.

[jazo]

Well if we are gonna use this thread to nostalgia over summoners in past FFs....

Here is the most hardcore summoning ever

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSNf6dpgA-I

[Atamis]

RIP

Yuna was probably the funnest summoner ever, Terra and Rydia don't stand a chance (Although Terra being able to turn into her esper form is a close second).

[Aleksandr]

Yuna was probably the funnest summoner ever, Terra and Rydia don't stand a chance (Although Terra being able to turn into her esper form is a close second).

Rydia could summon Mist Dragon or cast Meto. Could Yuna cast Meto? No!

[MysteriousRonin]

Its a great job, but its just not Summoner.

Should have been called Arcane Mage and not in a Summoners costume.

It's called Warlock in the MMO Yoshida based this game on.

[Engineer]

It's called Warlock in the MMO Yoshida based this game on.

It's sad, it's like he didn't even play any final fantasy games

[Evangela]

Not only that XIV summoners have bad design but gameplay are not so great either. Egis should have their own level and attributes that we can level them up. how can we have a chocobo companions system that better than summons system?

We should be able to manually write AI for it, like Gambit system in FF12.

for the bad design, I hope they'll get rid of all the Egis idea and make SMR summons something real.