[Pole] Do you want to see the summoner class reworked?

[Dwill]

I'd agree twisting arcanist is a bit of a lore buster but the lore of summoning -more- of a primal already exists unless it was retcon I didn't know about. Also there is nothing in the lore that says you cant become stronger and obtain greater amounts of primal essence, in fact in the story we see someone who has (though they are evil (maybe by mind influence), probably because most of the primals are evil or not interested in being pets).

And then of course there is the whole FC summoning the actual primal idea Yoshida has, and where SE said they are waiting for the story to allow that to make sense (at that point there would be even less of a reason to argue that summoners can't access more).

Yes there is something that explains it in the lore. A Primal's power level is in direct correlation with the amount of Aether amassed, more often than not via a huge amount of crystals. For our egi, it works the same. We summon them by using the essence we gained by fighting the primal as a catalyst then give they become an Aetherical Manifestation of what the primal looks in our mind, which means that they are a concentrated amount of Aether. For them to be stronger/bigger, a bigger amount of Aether would be needed which means exposure to a high amount of Aether which is a big no no due to serious side effects which includes aether sickness (poisoning).

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That's already what we do. Fighting the primals imbues us with their essence, to which we transmute into the Egis.