(Un)Official Arcanist/Summmoner Feedback Thread

[Aexrael]

Contagion is probably too significant an ability to be available from the Summons, because it's so highly desired/effective it will be in risk of overshadowing any future summons usefulness, let alone the existing ones. An ability which affects the core functionality (DoTs) of a class so fundamentally, is too good to be considered for "situational" use.

In that case it may be better off for the Job if Contagion were a part of the base Summoner abilities. I would remove Spur all together and replace it with Contagion. Spur feels largely redundant design wise in the presence of Rouse. If need be Rouse could see an increase in effectiveness to offset the loss of Spur, but I doubt that would really be needed and it would open up for more interesting changes to the Job.

Some other changes to go alongside these would be to change Enkindle to be a Buff like "burnout" effect with rapid MP drain on the SMN, but it would unlock the Summons "True potential/Ability" for the given time period that Enkindle is active. Right now Enkindle feels underwhelming, both visually but also functionally.

Similarly Sustain could also be a Toggle instead of a short term effect, draining HP instead of MP to heal the Summon. Que all the summoners killing themselves!

Miasma II is another ability which could use a complete redesign/replacement, though unsure to what purpose/effect.

In light of this the current summons would need to be redesigned to serve different roles, without going in to meticulous details Ifrit would be setup to be focused around Melee Single Target Sustained Damage, perhaps with a closer ability similar to the "slide" Ifrit uses in the HM fight.

Garuda would be focused around Ranged AoE Damage with a mix of burst and sustained, taking a que from the real Garuda and maybe giving it an ability similar to the Storms in the Garuda fight but on a smaller scale as well as the Single Target Splash Damage attack of hers, alongside a main AoE attack (And no KB!).

Lastly Titan would remain as a Single Target Melee Tank.

In the future summons they could add more "interesting" ones, such as a Effectiveness Debuff focused Summon or a more Crowd Control focused one, or a Ranged Tank, or AoE/Mob Crowd specialist tank that thrives the more mobs it tanks ect. Leaving Buffs/Support for the Scholar.