New summoner is unacceptable

[zcrash970]

I think its a blast and I love the way it looks even when Titans big butt is blocking my screen. Really enjoying it. I think they should just spin off an Alchemist class that focuses on the old style of dot game play via tossing poison potions for those that want Affliction Warlock and leave SMN the way it is.

Not sure if you lack reading comprehension or just didn't read, but the problem is a lot of people just hate the class design, myself included.

And you probably didn't play smn pre-6.0 and/or affliction warlock if you think they are comparable. The only thing they had in common was having dots and a pet.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

a lot of people just hate the class design

And a lot of people love it. Looking at the numbers, I'd say the lovers win by a huge margin. Never seen so many summoners around, and not only levelling.

[zcrash970]

And a lot of people love it. Looking at the numbers, I'd say the lovers win by a huge margin. Never seen so many summoners around, and not only levelling.

Depends on what circles you are in. I see more people hating on it or just generally disappointed from it

[aveyond-dreams]

Depends on what circles you are in. I see more people hating on it or just generally disappointed from it

Yeah we're aware that like 10 people on the forums that constantly bump each other's posts really really hate that their poison mage got taken away, along with all of its wonderful complexity. Meanwhile in game it's a different story. In the times that I've been able to log in and run roulettes Summoner is right up there with Reaper and Sage in terms of its popularity, even in low level content where surprisingly, Summoner is not the only job that feels incomplete at that point.

Levelling with it has been a blast so far, and I'm doing it on multiple characters on top of that. Even some of the haters I see didn't hate new Summoner enough to abandon their former main completely. I had to do a double take when I saw some of them in Limsa, it was truly a sight to behold. What the job needs moving forward are the summons that it's been missing since Heavensward when they should have added the remaining primals instead of doubling down on Bahamut Trance. As ogcds. As jewel or demi summons. It doesn't matter. Just get it done.

In Shadowbringers my experience with Summoner was a disastrous levelling experience when it was my first 80 that caused me to abandon it not long afterwards and now that Summoner will be my first 90 (assuming I get to actually log in and finish the story) I cannot imagine having any other class as my main. I can't wait to tackle endgame content with it and come 6.1, boost the alts that are too far behind for me to level the job all the way from scratch so I can max them out as well.