Mr.Happy Interview with Yoshi P

[_Koneko_]

It needs enough to let me summon Hydaelyn and shatter my enemies into multiple dimensions.

you can't divide by zero silly

[squidmonarchy]

I'm cautiously optimistic about the possible changes to Summoner. I've been playing it lately and I feel like it was functional but very bland. The job quests were fine, but the job itself seemed to lack the dramatic oomph that it has in the single player games. It wasn't until level 70 and demi-Bahamut that I actually felt like a SUMMONER as opposed to just someone with a fancy pet.

[technole]

SCH was pretty much unplayable at the start of Stormblood. I'm not sure what you seem to be remembering but it was a bloody mess to even heal in dungeons, let alone higher end content. We had to get buffed almost on the next available patch because it was such a mess.

Not really, I was healing Susano EX on day two just fine, and Scholar didn't even get any changes in 4.01 only 5 jobs did. It wasn't scorned from any raid party like how WHM was at end of HW or beginning of SB.

The quick Aetherflow was nice in 4.05. But once again it wasn't in a crappy place like White Mage and Plenary being tied to Cure/Cure II.

[Brandedblade]

SCH was pretty much unplayable at the start of Stormblood. I'm not sure what you seem to be remembering but it was a bloody mess to even heal in dungeons, let alone higher end content. We had to get buffed almost on the next available patch because it was such a mess.

Strange, I remember absolutely thriving at the start of Stormblood. The only thing they where missing was an aoe filler with Blizzard II gone.

[Laphicet]

I'm sure BRD players would take a scrap of information at this point, even something as light as "We're on it" from Yoshida. Or even about the Infuriate copy-paste to other jobs such as DRK.

Come join the same club we healer mains sit in. We have cookies and tea... and frustration in spades.

[wereotter]

I'm cautiously optimistic about the possible changes to Summoner. I've been playing it lately and I feel like it was functional but very bland. The job quests were fine, but the job itself seemed to lack the dramatic oomph that it has in the single player games. It wasn't until level 70 and demi-Bahamut that I actually felt like a SUMMONER as opposed to just someone with a fancy pet.

I'm just cautious about the announcement entirely... might be unpopular opinion, but at level 80, summoner is one of my favorite jobs in the game. So if the job is getting a massive change, I worry that it won't be fun for me to play anymore. This is doubly so considering my other favorite job, monk, has already been gutted to its skeleton so it can be overhauled next expansion as well.

[reivaxe]

Oh? So I was right in my assessment that "Egi glam" is NOT an acceptable example to point to of the devs not upholding promises because Smn is a "living" system of content that can change in such ways that would halt or completely turn progress on this into wasted work?

Who coulda thunk it?

Sounds like they're getting the Mch level rework and may be cutting the idea of egis/ making them just a visual flare or in some other way greatly changing them.

Great interview BTW, smart to not ask questions that would get a flat "Yeah, Nah, not telling you anything cause this is gonna be major Fanfest news so pretty nother response and move on .."