The whole Summoner "has been re-worked" is sad

[FelixWindwright]

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I don't mean to be rude, but you've take alot of what I have said out of context, which is fine perhaps I wasn't explicitly clear. I didnt say it was tearing people apart I commented that people are tearing apart the SMN changes when from a lore point of view there isn't really an issue about evoking Summoner powers. People are upset, This was never gunna make everyone happy, but if people wanna get nit picky with Evoker and Summoner, which are two parts of the same cloth as far as I am concerned then fine. However, the forum threads at this moment in time at 99% negative about Summoner changes, whereas in game I see alot of happy Summoners. I'm just representing the rest of us saying "Hey, cool idea - I'm happy about where this is going" because this viewpoint in terms of thread titles is sorely missing as we have a plethora "RIP SMN" "It's bad" etc etc.

You're honing in again on something Yoshi-P said a while back AND something he never confirmed "I think" is not "It will" it's merely hypothesizing the future which by that point was a long way off. The problem is if they put Bahamut Egi in the game they would put it at the same level as Garuda/Ifrit to be balanced then that would draw a whole new level of complaints because "Bahamut should be more powerful." So the compromise that was reached as introducing pet glamours to add more skins to pets to give the flexibility of using other primals/carbuncles as the current incarnations do cover alot of bases, which I fully support personally (but again people don't that's ok too).

End of the day the fact we even get to evoke Bahamuts power is "enough" from the reactions I've seen, but people were always going to be mixed when the class is already sitting on rocky foundations from a playerbase that doesn't like its current incarnation, thus meaning a "solution" will never be reached as everyone wants different things for "their summoner". I'm sorry people feel sad about the direction Summoner is going - I was with you guys in 2.4 saying things are pretty bad, but now SE in my view have righted wrongs and done some useful things (not just Akh Morn) like a Triple DoT applicator and adding direct damage skills - that will diversify the current SMN tool kit, while keeping it embedded in lore.

Felix Out ^^