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

[Havenae]

This was already done with the Emerald and Topaz Carbuncles when replaced with Titan and Garuda-Egi, yet I don't see anyone complaining about the functions being reskins. Hell, a lot of players were even asking to get the Carbuncles back because they preferred how they look over the other two, and not because of functionality.

It changed because it's an entirely different spell with its own summon, not a reskin.

Trust me. I'd like the ability to summon carbuncle as a summon as well because I too liked the look. But I also want there to be a functional reason to have multiple summons, not just different skins for the same base.

I can't say I completely dislike the foundation of the idea here. It's something g similar to what I suggested a while back on the dps forums. And that was to do away with idividual spells and just give summoners an interface kind of like how you choose minions or mounts and wire summons to 1-3 spells. But in this idea I would have included signature abilities or themes per summon. I wouldn't expect that if I pulled leviathan in in place of say garuda that their main function would both be to simply extend dot durations. I'd expect garuda to do that while I'd expect leviathan to do something else.

What they're talking about now I'm not going g to hold my breath that it's anything more than an aesthetic change and nothing more. Which is selling the job short.

What this is.. Is a lazy easy way out for SE. Which I can't say I'm surprised.