Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Shurrikhan]

My hot take:

SMN doesn't need Shiva, Ramuh, or Leviathan summons. But it could stand to have Alexander and Eden summons.

Have one from each expansion, so to speak, over one of each element?

I wouldn't hate it, as much as I'd like elemental mixing and matching, but I can't say I'd be too fond of summoning, essentially, giant robots (Eden and Alexander)... I don't really see how either would fit alongside the nice Asia Minor / Persian / Bactrian mixes we have now with Titan, Ifrit, and Garuda.

If I liked Alexander's movesets (and assuming summons ever get enough unique to them to possibly be called a "moveset"), I'd probably be okay with him, but Eden... probably not.

Also, adding some kind of reference to Zanarkand (based on real-world Samarkand and all that of the summoning connotations it has from X) would also be rad af under this "Iranosphere" interpretation of Summoner.

Now that I'd love, especially if it fit with the next expansion's world.