Quote Originally Posted by Rolder50 View Post
Is it though? I haven't played many other FF Games, but from what I have been able to gather, the big feature of summoner in other titles is having a god of some sort come down, do a big attack, and leave. That's basically what they are doing here just adapted to make sense in an MMO format.
If you only count Ifrit/Garuda/Titan than sure. No other summoner has really used the summon's abilities. Yuna used the summon itself as a weapon, XIII kinda just auto attacked with you.
Its not well defined right now, but the XIV summoner; summons Ifrit, who does his attack and frigs off like normal, but then the summoner also gets to use Ifrits power themselves to recklessly charge into melee and beat someone with a firebook.
That summoner right there, that partially uses the summon conjoined with themselves I think is worth exploring. We still need to summon monsters, but why not also become one?
Yes it needs more work, more buttons, more integration, better (much better) pre90 development.
I see the beginnings of a unique take here and I would like to see it bear fruit.