Primal Summons = I Win Button what do you think?

[Tonkra]

What if when PvP is finally out and you are one win from attaining some for of rank just to have a completely inferior team just pop Ifrit in your face? That seem just a little rediculous and broaken to me.

I dont like attitudes like "its unfair" blabla.

i mean come on.. there will be less companys who own the rights to summon one primal... and i dont think that they can summon that primal that often (the weather will change all around eorzea when summoning a primal(god).. pure epicness... so i think they maybe just can summon them once per day or so?

and i think its cool and interesting (a "wow" effect) to competing against a group of those. "Wow they summoned ifrit etc. and kicked their asses".

why all people have to be as strong as the others? i mean in FF games there are also "powerful" villains who are fighting alone against a group of 4?


so i say, why not? and even if they can summon a primal once per day or whatever... it shouldnt be THAT radical. i mean they worked their asses to gain the right for just 2 weeks to summon the primal. so you always have to work hard to earn the right to summon one.


i think thats really epic and shouldnt be cut by thoughts of "ohhh its unfair *cry"
and we dont know how powerful they'll be nor how often they can be called. maybe it will be really rare to see one of these primals in action.


still these facts are just only some "thoughts" of the development team.

[Reinheart]

1. wait for more info is released this is just brief info YoshiP just gave out in a interview so no proof this is how it's going to be 100%
2. say one side had Ifrit and tries to one shot kill everyone on the opposing team... while the opposing team was keeping Leviathan hidden and beat the crap out of them... it's not only Ifrit that's going to be available.
3. sorry my translation is hard to read/sucks... trying my best, I know I'm lacking vocabs and grammar...

[Krausus]

What if when PvP is finally out and you are one win from attaining some for of rank just to have a completely inferior team just pop Ifrit in your face? That seem just a little rediculous and broaken to me.

I will most certainly blow my first Ifirit summon to kill the first lala I see...just sayin

[Starlord]

There are two types of Summons:

-Summons for Summoners ( at which they can summon anytime they please and its no " I win button"
-Summons that only Free Companies can use as a team( In which only You can have 1 token max per Free Company, and once you use up the what they refer to as a " Token". You then have to fight the Primal again to obtain a new Token.

That's no easy task, to get the token, considering look how hard they are to take down right now as it is? So when you scale that into the " I win button" and you only get 1 max to hold, then It seems right to have that token as a freebie card.

[Exni]

Sounds pretty exciting to me, I like both concepts. Though, I am hoping that he didn't mean just one free company per server can summon a primal at a time. Allowing groups to hoard primals preventing others from accessing the ability to use them would cause all sorts of problems..

That part about the sky changing in all the zones when a primal is summoned.... BOSS!!

[Exni]

-Summons that only Free Companies can use as a team( In which only You can have 1 token max per Free Company, and once you use up the what they refer to as a " Token". You then have to fight the Primal again to obtain a new Token.

Ah ok, one per free company at a time, that makes much more sense.

[Starlord]

Ah ok, one per free company at a time, that makes much more sense.

I'm led to believe that " Free Companies" is the new term for "Linkshells".

[Malakhim]

Wow... This opens up a few interesting PvP options.

Let's say that a Free Company is able to align itself with one of the Primals(Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, Leviathan, etc.). Now let's say that 2 Free Companies are going at it with all their might, but one side is being decimated. The summoners of one company(or "captains" assuming there'd be ranks and no dependency on certain jobs) would then be able to summon the company Primal, however in order to summon the Primal, you have to create a summoning circle with other members of the same rank and "chant" for a certain amount of time(say 2 minutes) before the Primal has a chance to set down and unleash hell on the other Company. During this chanting however, the summoners are totally vulnerable, so it's up to the other company members to protect them from the opponents' team.

"Oh sh*t, we're about to bite it!"

"Get ready to summon Ifrit!" *begins chanting*

*alarm for other team goes off*

Other team: "Guys they're summoning a Primal! Look for the circle and take them out"

Your team: "Back up the summoners! Don't let them through!"

*2 minutes later*

Ifrit: ROAR!

Also hurray for Yoshi-P going with lesser avatars for the Summoner job! I wanna see Hydra or Bismark!

[Zantetsuken]

Let's see...

[√] Primals can be summoned by players
[√] Primals retain their uber status and over-the-top attacks
[√] Primals aren't reduced to glorified pets (ie. 20+ copies of Ifrit following SMNs around like puppies)
[√] Primals change the environment when summoned (weather)
[√] SMN job will be in the game
[ _ ] SMN required to initiate or complete summoning Primals

Yoshi-P's plan is pretty much everything I want summoning magic to be in this game! If he makes the participation of a SMN job mandatory for the summoning, it will be perfect~

I can't wait to see how it looks when it is implemented‼

[Esk]

lol I'm all for summoning Primal Spirits of a sort, or elemental things...
Just for the love of ... something, I hope we can summing the Primal's as are..
I like the fact they are using them differently but still part of the game.

Or if we do summon them its a CG thing only for specific Boss fights.

Just my take on something we know nothing about anyway