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

[Bishop81]

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.

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Well, one idea I can think of is to have summons be temporary.

• summon one when you get into combat
• it drains your mana while it's out and about
• you spend most of your time managing it's abilities and your mana reserves
• all your attacks are via your summon.

PS: Personally I'm not very happy with ACN having DoTs either. They are tacticians, they should be "re-arranging" the battlefield to various effects - maybe via the Carbuncle; where the Carbuncle "sets up" and the ACN does the "finishing touches".