I love SMN

[meowmaou]

I don't. I quiet enjoy Phoenix, both looks and skillset. I have used the heal multiple times to save someone with.
Not that I wouldn't want to see an Odin summon to just obliterate something. I just think Summoner is lacking in many beneficial utility spells and would rather not give up another for a melee Bahamut.

I think the ability is cool, just find Phoenix itself kind of boring compared to some of the other summons we could be drawing from in FF history. I would love some more support and buff/debuff type summons.

[Higashikata]

I don’t like ruin mage. Changing the color of the ruin spell doesn’t make it any more fun

[Kandraxx]

The thing is you literally can’t create a faithful FF summoner here because in other FFs summoner isn’t really a valid thing, even Yuna is a WHM, it’s just other classes and whoever has the materia/junction/whatever equipped can use it.

So they can either create a WoW warlock, which SMN felt a lot like before, or do what they did, which comes a lot closer to Summoner, since in no FF other than FFX did. the summons stay around.

And even then, the only real use summons had in FFX was to soak 99.999 attacks from super bosses.

[Corbeau]

Once you get to 86, new-SMN is very good. My only complaints are the pre-86 rotation being way less interesting and Phoenix feeling lackluster, though it wouldn't take much to spice it up sufficiently.

[Daws]

Only 81 but I'm enjoying it so far. I do wish carbuncle wasn't a perma-pet and instead was a utility summons. Press the shield or damage boost and a big carbuncle appears and casts the spell...and then goes away lol. Just go all in with the flashy summons.

[Kisshu]

Like the new flow of SMN, but wish the second set of small summons could be Ramuh, Leviathan, Shiva instead of the same primals as the first set.

[gumas]

next expac, our level 100 skill is going to summon ardbert (and maybe together with his party)

please do this, i will convert to fulltime smn if they do this lol

[Atamis]

next expac, our level 100 skill is going to summon ardbert (and maybe together with his party)

please do this, i will convert to fulltime smn if they do this lol

Lights of the round?

[gumas]

Lights of the round?

i just imagine we summon ardbert like how DRK summon fray but instead of all dark like fray, we can clearly see its ardbert and help us for a while before dissipating

on the real side though, i think it will be interesting to see our character as summoner will evolve in the future to the point we can summon other being too, not just limited to primal/egi

[Awarewolf]

I’d give the three base summons a long cast time, like old school FF Summoners typically had, but make them hit harder to compensate. The animation to summon them should be very elaborate too. I want to see the book floating in front of us with the pages flipping on their own, some crazy seal spinning beneath our feet, etc.

Only other thing I want is the second Ifrit ground slam to propel us backward.