SMN - Why it is not a very interesting job and not a good upgrade from ACN

[Wolf_Shay]

The issue with the Summoner is the Arcanist has more control over their ability to shape Aether since they can shape it into replicas of Carbuncle and Topaz. Summoner's are an equipped job that enhances the abilities of the Acanist which means they should have greater control over their ability to shape Aether and be able to shape corrupted Aether into weaker and smaller replicas of the Primals but instead the Arcanist power got nerfed some how and lost the ability to control Aether when the Summoner job stone got equipped.

Read your lore...Carbuncles are formed when Arcanists magick gemstones, bringing that latent power into a physical form based on the gemstone used. Summoners however, shape a drop of the primal's power into a semi-crystalline form with no such focus, elemental power to boot which is not an Arcanist's strong suit.

[Akiza]

Read your lore...Carbuncles are formed when Arcanists magick gemstones, bringing that latent power into a physical form based on the gemstone used. Summoners however, shape a drop of the primal's power into a semi-crystalline form with no such focus, elemental power to boot which is not an Arcanist's strong suit.

The issue is the lore doesn't explain why Summoner's get the Egis when getting smaller and weaker replicas of the Primals would make more sense and better design choice while providing a Final Fantasy feel to the Summoner.

[YanderePrincess]

Read your lore...Carbuncles are formed when Arcanists magick gemstones, bringing that latent power into a physical form based on the gemstone used. Summoners however, shape a drop of the primal's power into a semi-crystalline form with no such focus, elemental power to boot which is not an Arcanist's strong suit.

Then apparently they need to go back and rewrite the dialogue of the Arcanist quests, because the Arcanist quests make it rather clear that the carbuncles are shaped by the Arcanist through use of the right aetheric formulas and geometric equations being applied as they manipulate the aether they study with such scientific specificity.

As far as your statement about elemental power, that's irrelevant to an arcanist's shaping of aether. It's their scientific, methodical, and analytical approach to aether and the manipulation of aether that allows them to bypass the potential weaknesses of being limited by elemental aspects of aether.

And, if anything, having less control over the aether because it's a piece of the primal's power would actually support it more closely resembling the primal as the primal would potentially be more in control of its shape than the summoner as the summoner would possibly not have the control required to shape it differently than it's natural physical form.