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

[Heal_Bot]

YES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE

[MomijiAkiko]

Yes

I would love to see the job base on the pets more than dots. I feel like I do not control my pets much since I have to keep all the dots up, not mentioning we only use Garuda in most fights. A revamp to bring out the true power of a SMN would be nice.

[Shikiseki]

For me at least, it would change a lot if they would just simply change the animations into flashy summoning with basically the same effects.
I mean they could replace carbuncle with our egis, can't be this difficult right?

Battle effects/potency remain unchanged (exceptions are labeled)
Ruin --> Ruin (I think it's alright)
Bio --> Meteor Strike (Ifrit quickly appears and launches a fireball towards the enemy)
Physic --> Geysier (Leviathan splashes the target with a water fountain to heal)
Energy Drain --> Rolling Thunder (Ramuh tethers the foe, draining their lifeforce)
Miasma --> Friction (Garuda casts her quick friction wind blast)
Virus --> Millennial Decay (Calls Fenrir to cause the debuff)
Resurrection --> Phoenix (Instead of angel feathers, a phoenix aura will shortly appear above the dead member to revive)
Bio II --> Geocrush (Titan jumps right into the enemy from above)
Bane --> Ruinous Omen (Diabolos works his magic to spread the dots around the target)
Eye for an Eye --> Ruby Light (Carbuncle returns! Now casting a protective buff on a party member "eye for an eye")
Ruin II --> Ruinra (not sure if the instant cast justifies its high mp cost without having a small aoe effect...)
Rouse --> Rouse (seems fine)
Miasma II --> Heavenly Strike (Shiva casts an ice tomb when she's being summoned around the caster which shatters quickly)
Shadow Flare --> Memento Moogle (Summons multiple dancing moogles at a specific place with swirling notes)

Summon I --> Garuda (Faint green aura of Garuda - half sized of the original but same model with 50% transparency)
Summon II --> Titan (see Garuda but with yellow Titan aura)
Summon III --> Ifrit (see Garuda but with red Ifrit aura)

Fester --> Tri-Disaster (makes sense no? If all 3 dots are applied, it deals nice damage)
Tri-Disaster --> Silent Voice (Summons Siren to do minor damage + 1 random status ailment like silence/stun/pacification/sleep etc.) <-- only attack that has altered battle effects!
Spur --> Spur (seems alright)
Enkindle --> Enkindle (Signature attack)

Since it looks like every new dungeon has a minor summon at the moment, the Summoner will only have its visuals altered by clearing that content first.
That would give the Summoner so much more a summony feel, just by altering their spell animations without touching the beloved balance

[Kikosho]

Personally, I would not want a more pet-focused SMN mainly for the reason that controlling pets is one of the more annoying aspects of SMN right now.

[Crevox]

Yes

Summoner should be more about the pet. As an end game Summoner who has downed T13, I still want a proper Summoner.

[Wizarus]

Personally, I would not want a more pet-focused SMN mainly for the reason that controlling pets is one of the more annoying aspects of SMN right now.

At least it's interactive, and I'd say we need more interaction with the pet. Spamming Ruin after DOTs are applied is the single most boring thing in FFXIV combat.

[Spoekes]

In terms of gameplay SE would do good to reduce manacost and casttime of pet summoning for SMN.
It would allow them to bind different Player skills to get boosted or even become available only if the correct pet is assisting you.

[Bishop81]

In terms of gameplay SE would do good to reduce manacost and casttime of pet summoning for SMN.
It would allow them to bind different Player skills to get boosted or even become available only if the correct pet is assisting you.

Of course any changes to reduce mana cost / increase mana regen will affect SCH too.

Sharing a base class makes changes to either Job difficult.

For this reason, I wonder if an ACN/SMN/SCH rework is in the pipeline.

[Spoekes]

Yup. Best not hope for anything before the expansion.

Maybe you will finally get your carbuncles then :-P

[Uninstall]

Of course any changes to reduce mana cost / increase mana regen will affect SCH too.

Sharing a base class makes changes to either Job difficult.

For this reason, I wonder if an ACN/SMN/SCH rework is in the pipeline.

ez band-aid solution: give more piety bonus to the summoner job stone.