Quote Originally Posted by Bishop81 View Post
Just curious, what do you feel is main problem here? Not enough "focus" on the Primals?
Pretty much.

In FFXI, the Primals/Egi/Avatars were your job. You were useless without one - whereas you are simply gimped in XIV if you are without one. Failure or success was obtained in your selection of avatar, when to execute which BloodPact, proper positioning, etc.

I would be very happy if the Arcanist component were separated from the Summoner component and they became two critically different jobs. Arcanist would enjoy the DoT's and whatnot - while Summoner would become pet reliant and more utility based like the BRD. Make it where a lot of thought goes into which Egi you summon and what abilities you deploy from said summon. Right now it's simply CD management on the pets with little thought to the contrary.

Please, please, please note that I am a baby SMN in FFXIV. However, I've read enough forum posts from veteran SMN that tend to collaborate this thought process. I may be absolutely incorrect in all of it. While I try not to jump to long reaching conclusions, even my limited time as a SMN has brought me to my current observations that Egi's feel like an afterthought that is holding back the potential of the Arcanist, and Arcanist is holding back the Summoner.

Holding them back from what? Nothing more than what I want them to be. This is not necessarily what they should be. Just what i would like them to be.