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

[Einheri]

@Akiza

How is an Arcanist/Summoner evolved from a Time Mage? Have you played any other Final Fantasy games? You seem to reference them a lot, but very rarely accurately, to validate your ideas.

Shadow Flare - Slow. Tri Disaster - Bind. Ruin II - Blind. Miasma I & II - Disease which is different from the normal FF Disease and FF14's Virus.

There are three other slow abilities in the game;

Dragoon- Fient
Monk- Haymaker
Black Mage - Lathargy

Are they all derived from time mages?

Speaking of QoL the Arcanist needs Dimensional and Space-Time Magic added considering Tri-Disaster is equivalent to Stop which is Time Magic.

Immobilize =/= Stop

Slow =/= Heavy


FF12 Has a good break down of what school each magic belongs to but each FF is different and there are a lot of over laps.

Stop Started as a Black Magic. So...

[Dwill]

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He/she doesn't get it. It's pretty easy to guess because he's asking for Break which is a spell that instantly petrifies you and he's asking for the Gravity spell line (a.k.a
Demi, which you be worthless on trash, broken on bosses) to be introduced.

[dragonfire8974]

He/she doesn't get it. It's pretty easy to guess because he's asking for Break which is a spell that instantly petrifies you and he's asking for the Gravity spell line (a.k.a
Demi, which you be worthless on trash, broken on bosses) to be introduced.

read a little farther back, flare potency attacks are on the list of things requested too

[Dwill]

read a little farther back, flare potency attacks are on the list of things requested too

And that's alongside the pet doing more damage than the Summoner. Balanced!

[Akiza]

In Final Fantasy Tactics the Arcanist and Time Mage overlap in terms of skills and abilities since Arcanist is attuned to Dark and Gravity. Arcanist has no affinity for Bio, Miasma and Virus so Square should just give those spells back to Black Mage and optimize the Final Fantasy Arcanist for mmorpg's. Besides a lot of the Arcanist abilities got moved to the Time Mage so essentially the Arcanist and Time Maall should have the same abilities.

Shadow Flare is the Dark version of Black Mage's Flare so they should function the same.

[Dwill]

In Final Fantasy Tactics the Arcanist and Time Mage overlap in terms of skills and abilities since Arcanist is based space-time magic and Time Mage is based on time magic. Also according to the class description in Final Fantasy Compendium Arcanist can't use spells such as Bio, Miasma and Virus because they don't have an affinity for those spells they belong to the Alchemist tree. Arcanist manipulate geometric objects which is what space-time is. Square should just optimize the Final Fantasy Arcanist with space-time magic for mmorpg's and give Bio, Miasma and Virus back to the Black Mage.

As far as Shadow Flare goes it's the Dark version of Flare so it should function like the Black Mage's Flare.

I think I'll quote my own self here:

Everytime I read one of your post, I think you can't get worse than that yet you successfully prove me wrong everytime.

[Taruinatho]

I can't say I recall Arcanist or Summoner using a Pole.

[Akiza]

I think I'll quote my own self here:

Arcanist uses Arcane Magic not Bio not Miasma not Virus since that falls under Black Mage. Time Mage also uses Arcane Magic therefore Arcanist and Time Mage are different names for the same class.

[Exstal]

In Final Fantasy Tactics the Arcanist .

There is no Arcanist in Final Fantasy Tactics.　Find me where Arcanist is and I'll believe everything you say.

[dragonfire8974]

Arcanist uses Arcane Magic not Bio not Miasma not Virus since that falls under Black Mage. Time Mage also uses Arcane Magic therefore Arcanist and Time Mage are different names for the same class.

except not. maybe in FFT (I haven't played that long enough to get either classes), but I can tell you in FF1-14 (not counting 11 because I didn't play that either), Time mages were very different from the way ACN has been created in FFXIV. Also, the Time mage pinnacle spell was meteor, and it did not operate like flare in the least, and from what I read, it works the same in tactics as it does in FFV.

In all other Final Fantasy games Shadow Flare is a monster ability or an item ability that does not work at all like Flare (excepting FF3 when it is a terrain ability and has a 2% chance of being used, but then it was more powerful than flare), and the arcanist from Tactics A2 used lvl. X magic, drain, gravity, and syphon. For what its worth, energy drain takes that Drain and Syphon ability and combines it into 1, and i'm thankful they didn't put death/gravity in there because those spells tend to be nearly worthless.

your points aren't based on any game lore, just desire to do what you want the summoner to do. I will be so much happier if you will just admit that

an yes I looked up all this stuff on various wikia and game sites to make sure I wasn't spouting poo