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

[Dwill]

SE doesn't have to do anything about Egis because only an extremely low vocal minority dislikes them.

[Sen_Terrechant]

Anyways Square has to do something to address the Egis since according to the E3 live stream comments a lot of players think the Summoner is fine but the Egis are stupid.

HAS to do something because ONLY YOU have the issue?

You just said yourself a lot of players think the Summoner is fine.

Also please stop posting balance suggestions. Ive seen some bad ones, but yours take the cake as some of the worst.

[Akiza]

The Summoner itself is fine the Egis suck

[Eggnook24]

Chicken! Nuggets! Akiza! Chicken! Food!

We all get it, Egi isn't the all powerful summons of yore. Just be satisfied SMN have #1 DPS.

[Akiza]

Summoner has the highest dps in theory but not in practice

[MicahZerrshia]

That's because the egi has horrid AI, and even when you have them on obey they don't do well. Im so damn tired of my titan egi floating away after something that is across the map that I haven't had hate on in 5 minutes and having to tell it to stay 7 times cause it keeps ignoring my commands and still having it float away and just unsummon. Or going after something that I am not even fighting nor does it currently or ever have hate on me. The stupid thing literally goes for mobs that respawn after I kill them. They either need to overhaul the egi ai or give us more control. These pets are more a bane than a boon in many cases.

[BinaryJack]

So many complaints about Egi's.
They're not as broken as so many people say.
You need to realize that you also have to work with the constraints of their AI and programming.

Garuda is always on obey and heel, I have a macro to do this shortly after her summon and will use it every now and then to get her to my side to avoid AOE and other dangers.
I leave Titan & Ifrit on Sic and to their own devices.

I never use Titan, even when Solo.
I only use Ifrit when I need to burn through mobs in CT as with Atomos and when farming for materials.

I solely use Garuda when I'm in dungeons.
She is a boon to all Summoners with her skills and base attacks.

It is best to work with what we have or hang up your Summoner Horn and choose another Job.

[Pooky_Pasha]

Summoner has the highest dps in theory but not in practice

We must be playing different SMNs then.

[Sakasa]

Well I remember there was mention to adjustments to summonings specifically ifrit but people completely missed the boat on asking questions about it as majority of people only cared about the BLM adjustment or new content. I think by design ifrit was suppose to be a walking additional dot but the vengeance like method of applying it was the issue, as the burn dot I don't think I have ever seen used even in dungeons 30-40 range. But you know if they added a self destruct on death burst of damage I imagine we would see ifrit's hang out with tanks dealing that vengeance damage before they lemming themselves for the sake of dps.

[Sanguisio]

The Egis are pretty good, would be nice if they were stronger.

But cant complain after seeing a titan egi tank levi head lol, SMNS are OP.