Summoner revamp

[MagiusNecros]

The thing is, you would go against 6 years worth of lore by summoning full size primals. But an effect where the Egi grows bigger when using it's special move, why not.
But I rather have the dev add skills to the Egis so that you at least have to manage the pet outside of skills like Contagion.

Well before making Summoner a Job class they should have thought about the consequences of basing the entirety of their narrative around killing summon monsters. And furthermore not just using a popular job name to draw in people to try out and adapt their idea of an affliction mage.

[WhiteArchmage]

Well before making Summoner a Job class they should have thought about the consequences of basing the entirety of their narrative around killing summon monsters. And furthermore not just using a popular job name to draw in people to try out and adapt their idea of an affliction mage.

This was already answered on this same thread, they didn't WANT to make the SMN, fan demand was too much, they compromised as much as the lore allowed. Lore didn't allow much. Then again, this is the FF fan-base, where every numbered game (and even spin-off) is the death of the franchise and will kill Square (and we've been saying it since, when, VIII?), I'm not surprised at the amount of salt in any thread in here.

Also, about the elemental balance thing that someone else pointed, if they overhaul the elemental defenses to make a summoner with different kinds of summons viable (and then we'd need 6 summons), they'd be shooting BLM and WHM on the foot, since BLM wouldn't be able to regain mp on Shiva and wouldn't even be allowed in Ifrit parties, would be next to useless in Titan and Bismarck. And WHMs would take SCH's place as DPS that ocassionaly heals in fights with many earth-aspected mobs. Take it one step further, DRK would be useless in VA/Mhach, since demons and undead normally are immune to dark-type damage, oh, and guess who has a Holy-aspected spell?