SUMMONER, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE OR ADD? (EVOLUTION & STAT ALLOCATION)

[Brianmj]

I don't want to heal your pets. That's your responsibility.

[Fuddy]

First thing I would add is the pet's visual evolution, the current look of the pets is completely unsatisfying. They don't have to be really big but they should look less like glowing crystal and more like actual creatures (Like Carbuncle. Carbuncle is great. WTF were they thinking with these Egis?)

The method I would use to evolve them would be via 1v1 trials a bit similar to the way you could get the summons in FFXI. I think it would be absolutely epic to have to battle a full primal 1v1 as a summoner.

A more debatable thing to do would be make the battles raid-level difficult. Then only the more dedicated summoners could get them which would add a little bit of mystique back to the job which could be neat.

The other thing I would do is add more abilities to each Egi. Depending on which Egi is out the Summoner's entire mechanic could change. The Egi that you summon could change your abilities or the abilities could just be pet skills. Summon Garuda to go all-in DoT. Summon Ifrit to become more of a burst mage. Titan would still be a tank for soloing probably, but you could come up with other mechanics for Shiva, Leviathan, and Ramuh such as Control, Debuff, and AoE.

[Ecks007]

I don't want to heal your pets. That's your responsibility.

Yeah.. because Summoner healing is so effective.

I'm not talking about Ifrit or Garuda. It would mostly be for situations when Titan is being used as a tank. Summoner heals are far too weak to be of any use in keeping Titan alive against dungeon mob groups and bosses. Obviously this would be a situation that was either planned from the get-go, or in emergency cases when a tank dies or otherwise disappears. Still, when Titan is being used as a tank, healers have no way to target him unless they mouse over (PC) and manually click him, which suffice to say is a huge pain in the butt. I'm not even sure if they added a way for Titan to be targeted by PS3/4 users, but I imagine it would be even more of a pain in the butt. (I play on PC)

[Defteros]

Yeah.. because Summoner healing is so effective.

I'm not talking about Ifrit or Garuda. It would mostly be for situations when Titan is being used as a tank. Summoner heals are far too weak to be of any use in keeping Titan alive against dungeon mob groups and bosses. Obviously this would be a situation that was either planned from the get-go, or in emergency cases when a tank dies or otherwise disappears. Still, when Titan is being used as a tank, healers have no way to target him unless they mouse over (PC) and manually click him, which suffice to say is a huge pain in the butt. I'm not even sure if they added a way for Titan to be targeted by PS3/4 users, but I imagine it would be even more of a pain in the butt. (I play on PC)

from PS4 you can mouseover click him, too....
but yes, it's still a pain >_>