If you were part of the DEV team what adjustment will you make to Summoner?

[Kabooa]

Honestly, I like a lot of these ideas, but may i make a few suggestions?

1) Switch the levels at which the Ifrit summon and second skill use is unlocked.

2) Generally, Jobs have two level 30 and level 50 skills.

Question: Will the 52-60 skills add Leviathan, Ramuh, Shiva, and Bahamut? Oh, could the 58 or 60 skill be Double Summon, which would allow you to have a second summon on the field?!

Completely forgot Ifrit was in the 20s. It's been a long time since I did ARR content.

It was a rough sketch, plenty of room for more abilities, but the basic set was simply around having the pet being the primary interaction with enemies while the summoner moves around the field to set up certain pet/master interactions (Which is why most of the abilities are based around empowering the pet, or moving around the field.) More than enough room to add some other stuff at 30/50.

50+ is harder to deal with since it'd be a large amount of ability bloat following this pattern, though somewhat alleviated by the shared Channeling actions (4 abilities per pet, but the 4 'Channeling' skills swap based on the pet so never more than 4 'basic' buttons, same with Enkindle)

One option regarding new summons is to have them be the 'upgraded' version of other summons via Overdrive, simply because the design of the game doesn't quite lend itself to supportish play.

So Carbuncle with Overdrive becomes Shiva, maintaining the same 'has multi-facted kit' but now it's an ice chick with boosted power. Garuda -> Ramuh, etc etc.

Bahamut and other Elder Primals should require some sort of build up (Which the current iteration of Summon is good for concept).

A 'stampede' like cooldown could be the 'gauge' Stormblood introduced. Summoned creatures steadily build the 'gauge', Enkindling provides a large amount, and then the gauage is spent on Summoning Bahamut / other 'Elders', or on a 'open the floodgate summon everything' barrage, which is basically just animated as all your pets doing the 1-4 actions but at higher potency.