Quote Originally Posted by Rika007 View Post
My biggest concern and hope they address is mechanic synergy, as currently right now Summoner has the most disjointed DPS kit in the game, etc.
I've noticed that at least Phoenix will stop following to attack when you input a command, something Bahamut still doesn't do :/

Totally agree about kit synergy, too. I know XIV SMN doesn't have to adhere strictly to everything that defines SMN in past iterations through FF, but if we're going to be the DoT mage, they need to integrate into the kit better than just "this one skill will refresh when you trance, and this other one skill hits harder when DoTs are ticking, but your entire skillset otherwise is totally unrelated". It wouldn't shock me to have SMN reworked to move DoTs over to a new job entirely in favor of something else, but that's honestly a pipe dream that feels very unlikely, so I'm not resting on it lol.

One of the things I'd love to see in a SMN rework is Aetherflow being changed to a job gauge that fills from 0 to 100 like SAM's kenki. Using AF gives a fixed amount, ticking DoTs fill it very minimally as they tick and the gauge can be expended for one-and-done oGCD summons that can replace Enkindle. Ifrit's Inferno could easily be changed to work like Higanbana as a long duration DoT since it's already a Dot. Garuda's Aerial Blast could still be the AoE option, while Titan's Mountain Buster (is that even the right one? I've never once summoned Titan lol) is the single-target equivalent. It would open the floor to one-off attacks by Ramuh, Leviathan and Shiva, too, while letting us keep elder primals or more prominent summoned figures for demi-trances (DWT w/ Bahamut, FBT w/ Phoenix, and I would assume some kind of holy trance w/ maybe Alexander?).

Of course, I'm not sure about how to make this work mechanically, because I don't think SMN should be reaching BLM levels of output, but should still be stronger than RDM. I still want to see egis go in favor of one-and-dones, but I also like the way egi assaults work right now minus the occasional ghosting. So much to think about!