Summoner is a royal screwup on SEs part - everyone knows this.

Way too much emphasis on DoTs rather than the pet. That's what you get when you try to copy-paste WoW.


Summoner personal DPS should be lowered, but give them more ON THE GCD pet commands (including some with utility) that reduce the amount of ruin spam filler they need to do. Increase the dps and utility of the pet to compensate for SMN personal dps loss.

....and it's been said a million times before, but EGIs are complete trash and disappointment when summons have always been on a grand scale for the entire series. I'm not saying give them full size FFXI summons, but some kind of halfway point with a little more detail and effort on the artistic side would be nice.


None of this is going to happen though, it's the same vicious cycle that every other declining game franchise faces -

1.) Make rushed, unpolished, incomplete game

2.) Game has horrible sales or dies fairly quickly

3.) Instead of fixing the root problem, game company tries to copy other successful franchises or discontinues game franchise altogether



Game development is about a quick buck nowadays. Don't expect and significant improvements or overhauls of SMN gameplay or any other aspect of FFXIV.


You all asked for the fast food, dungeon grinding, mor dhona duty finder interface MMO - with your wallets. Now suck it up.