A World of possibilities for summoners.

[Arcell]

What do you guys think? And beyond carbuncle I wonder what summons we could get maybe Valefor, Ixion, Diabolos? I for one would love Siren :3.

Well you're forgetting that the Summoner job is confirmed as not getting the big summons. They are getting spirits and monsters I believe was the exact wording, like Carbuncle as an example (not confirmed as being used). Only Free Companies will get access to the big Primal summons and even then it'll be few and far between judging by their concept ideas.

I thought Yoshi said we aren't having a traditional SMN class/job, that it will be an ability that the player can use on any/all/some classes/jobs, then it would have to be recharged (or something like that) to be used again.

Or did I miss something new he announced? I liked SMN, I wouldn't mind seeing it again, but I thought a pure SMN specific job/class was off the table the way he was last talking? I will GLADLY be corrected, because I really like SMN.

Summoner has been confirmed as a job, just not getting the Primals as summons as they are gods. We'll be getting smaller things, as stated above they used Carbuncle as an example.

[Anima]

I'd agree on putting the Traditional Summon as the primals, Extremely powerful summons as the Elder primals and others as an Normal Summoned Avatar.

Primals:
Ifrit
Titan
Garuda
Shiva
Ramuh
Leviathan
Malevolent Moogle

Elder Primals:
Odin
Alexander
Bahamut
Shinryuu
Knights of the Round

Summoned Avatars:
Espers
Eidolons
Others

A lot can be donee with FFXIV's summon, and I'm really interested on what Yoshi has in his mind/plan.

[KaiKatzchen]

Summoner has been confirmed as a job, just not getting the Primals as summons as they are gods. We'll be getting smaller things, as stated above they used Carbuncle as an example.

I found the interview where he says it! Someone should have linked to it lol, I hadn't heard of this interview but I am happy to see that SMN is confirmed in some form

Link to Article where he confirms it, for those who haven't see it.

[PrettyPrincess]

They are getting spirits and monsters

that's...not what was said at all O.o

[Liham]

For now, we have :

Primordial Primal : Bahamut

Cute Primal : Evil Moogle

Elemental Primals :

Titan
Ifrit
Leviathan
Garuda
Ramuh
Shiva

Odin : Elder Primal

Avatars : Carbuncle

List of some Common Final fantasy Summons:

Diabolos
Fenrir
Alexander
Phoenix
Ixion
Valefor
Siren\Ondine
Gilgamesh
Atomos

Cerberus
Maduin
Anima
Yojimbo
Brynhildr
Hecatoncheir
Golem
Quetzacoalt
Pandemona (zephir)
Eden \ Ark
Magus sisters
Kujata
Bismarck
Asura
Hydra
Hades
Kirin
Seraph
Valigarmanda
Pandemona
Typhoon
Doomtrain

Knight of the Rounds : OMGs O_O
12 Zodiacal Summon of Ivalice

Now if we go with the idea that it may have elemental avatar, Which will you choose ?

Fire : Phoenix
Ice : ??? or Fenrir
Lightning : Ixion
Water : Siren or ???
Earth : Hecatoncheir or Golem
Wind : ?????

But at the end whatever they choose it will be cool !!

[KaiKatzchen]

that's...not what was said at all O.o

I agree, with my craptastic Japanese it said he said they would have a SMN, some type of pet class. Something about carbuncle being an actual "summon"... special summon (something like that), but not the primals like Ifrit, Odin, Garuda etc... non summon pet.

Didn't see anything about spirits or monsters, unless he says it later on. I just read until SMN was confirmed (thank god it was near the start!) because my Japaneses is bad.

Someone wanna translate? Please! Give you cookies! <3

[Arcell]

that's...not what was said at all O.o

I can't seem to find the exact quote right now, though I'm searching, but I believe it was something to the effect of lesser spirits (like Carbuncle) and things like that. If I recall correctly it was around the same time they were explaining their concepts of the free company summons as well.

[grandm]

I like the idea that our private company can work together to summon ifrit, etc, and that it is a huge event like Yoshi pointed out.

As for the summoner class, my hope is that with the different avatars it can summon, their role in battle will change. Meaning that thy should be versital. Summon a tank summon, summon a healing summon, summon a damage summon etc. I hope that the summoner can be diverse in their party roll. That's just my hope

i liked your idea of heal, tank, damage summon. but i think it would be hard to balance. they would have to be weaker than PC tanks, healers, damage. but at the same time strong enough to make them worth playing, seems like that woud be a balancing nightmare

[PrettyPrincess]

I can't seem to find the exact quote right now, though I'm searching, but I believe it was something to the effect of lesser spirits (like Carbuncle) and things like that. If I recall correctly it was around the same time they were explaining their concepts of the free company summons as well.

actually, Yoshi said he wanted community feedback on which summons a summoner should have (besides the primals obviously.)

[weeble]

i liked your idea of heal, tank, damage summon. but i think it would be hard to balance. they would have to be weaker than PC tanks, healers, damage. but at the same time strong enough to make them worth playing, seems like that woud be a balancing nightmare

probably like in ffxi just be able to do those things with lower level mobs rather then the ones a real tank can do. though they not say yet if this class is gonna be solo like in ffxi? or did they say they would like it to acually be part of real party mechanics this time around. i would really like to see even bst and smn being something we can invite an it is just as good as having a lnc or archer.

but at most it would be cool to see like 3 different types of pet classes and all of them kinda have there own thing where having a group with all 3 becomes a very formidable grind group to do things with.