So how can SE make SMN better?

[Dyvid]

Okay, I'll defend my position.

Final Fantasy 3 was the first title to introduce Evoker and Summoner. Evoker used the Summon's enemy skill (Mind blast, Stomp, Protective Light, Demon Eye, Etc...) and was cast as a spell random between Direct Attack and Indirect. Summoner actually summoned the monster on screen which then used the traditional abilites like Diamond Dust, Inferno, Judgement Bolt. Evoker only appeared in FFIII were as Summoner continued through the series and Blue Mage appeared in FFV and continued throughout. Now I can't interview Hiroyuki Ito or Akihiko Matsui about the development idea for Blue Mage in FFV, but its reasonable to assume the idea of a mage casting enemy skills first came from Evoker eariler in the series.

As for Heavensward, yep DWT and the entire design on Summoner in 3.0 was based more on the player doing abilities. Stormblood on the other hand brought the job back closer to 2.0 design where pet summoning and pet focused abilities came into play. Again, I assume this was done based on player feedback through out the 3.0 series.

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1 - Change the Egi designs.

2 - Add other primals to the glamour system.

Now I remember the original idea behind Egi was they wanted the Primals we fight feel big and dangerous and felt smaller version would diminish this. I also remember them saying that they were worried large verison of the primal would block other players view, similar to what happened with Demi Bahamut in 4.0. I would like to see DWT reworked into something similar to Demi-Bahamut were the Egi you have summoned grows into a more larger version and deathflare is replaced with enkindle making the Egi feel more powerful. But who knows, that my be how they bring Ramuh, Leviathan, and Shiva into our arsenal.