How I would want SMN to work.

[TankHunter678]

Ifrit-egi should match Ruin 3's damage in 5 attacks. Ifrit comes in swinging for 40 effective potency, and ruin 3 is only 200 potency.

Pet tooltips say how much potency it would be for the player, but the pets themselves actually suffer a potency nerf. This is noticable when you actually run the math and look at the damage numbers that pop up on level appropriate targets and SCH's fairy healing.


Now as for Summoner, if you stick with Trances then treat the egi's as kinda the starter we get that upgrades into demi-primals. To help showcase the growth in power in the player that allows them to draw upon stronger forms as they become more capable.

I personally still want there to be dots, it helps separate from the other caster classes and I am a fan of quoting those toxin troopers from the red alert series "Spread the DOOM" every time I hit bane. Not to mention, every Summoner in FF history has been more then just summons but also another caster type. No reason to make our Summoner basically a BLM clone with Summons, that has already been done before in FF.