Akatsuki?

[IveraIvalice]

C'mon now get serious. I can solo those prime fights in FFXI. Summoner can even solo it at Lv20.
FYI: The Easy version of Ifrit can still kill Lv50s with Hell Fire.

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I would much rather see Ifrit as powerful as he is. The weather changes and everyone everywhere will know somebody has summoned him. You know in most single player final fantasy games anyone can summon.

With that said there is a lot more summon beast summoners can use exclusively in FFXIV from all the other final fantasy games.

perhaps, i dont disagree it would be on a much grander scale, however the lack of summoner information makes the thought of anyone being able to summon a primal, very unappealing.
until there is some good news about the summoner job i will continue to be against this
in the very least i am against the idea that a simple card is used to summon him. it should at least be some magical item like an orb or a soul piece or something

[Narfalicious]

perhaps, i dont disagree it would be on a much grander scale, however the lack of summoner information makes the thought of anyone being able to summon a primal, very unappealing.
until there is some good news about the summoner job i will continue to be against this
in the very least i am against the idea that a simple card is used to summon him. it should at least be some magical item like an orb or a soul piece or something

Soul card then if it makes you feel better.

[Kyri]

this idea in general makes the summoner in me very sad ; ;

[AceofRains]

I'm excited for the primal summoning system
Diabolo fight would be sweet. I imagine that theres some kind of hidden treasure room in Ul'dah Palace (one that a street rat may find a secret passes to lol) And find a magic lamp inside.

As well as summoner.
Summoner lesser spirts would be wayy better.
But who said lesser cant be one of the good ones.
Pheonix, Carbuncle, Ixion, Fenrir, Remora, Golem,

All of these are great potential lessers, and I doubt summoner job will have all of them right away.

I'm hoping to be able to pilgrimage as a summoner and go in cloister of trials.
Seeing as job quests get harder as you go on and you need more allies in them I'm sure you could muster up some guardians as well. ^^ The first few could be more friendly/passive summons to beat in an easyer battle. Like fighting carbuncle so he can deem your worth. (Also hoping to see some form of Reflect on carbuncle, if not a "Refract" that redircts attacks to another player)

[Maxthunder]

100% Agreed. This primal summoning is stupid as ****! You mean we can only summon Primals when our Free Company leader decides? WTF?!

Screw that. Wtf is a SMN now? Looks like This is forcing SMN to be a gimped healer/buffer again, only this time they dont get the reach around of summoning an awesome Main summon like Ifrit!

This is complete BS. Is this really what you ppl want? FFs didn't restrict summoning this much: why start now?

I understand limitations like MP perpetuations costs or only having one primal out at a time: but you guys really wanna screw SMN like this?

WTF is the point of being a SMN now?

Are all the petjobs getting ****ed like this?!

Is BST going to only Charm one pet once every week via a job ability that has to be unlocked via a FC ldr?!

Is Puppetmaster limited to using its puppet for 12 seconds only after the FC ldr authorizes it to be called out?!

Are you ppl ****ing kidding me?!

This is asanine!

I completely agree and it is really a sad they SE or the devs plan on doing this. Seeing this will be done there really is no point in a SMN job.

[Gukie]

This just mean there won't be no summoner job... Epic FAIL---

[ArkNova]

I can see it now a dragoon summons Ifrit and turns to the summoner next to him and says I'm more of a summoner then you b!tch!

[Zyph]

This just mean there won't be no summoner job... Epic FAIL---

You are quite misinformed.

[Deltara]

You know, we could have a happy medium here.

1) Any free company can attempt a "special" primal battle in order to get that primal's card. There are unlimited amounts of cards available, so every free company on the server could get the card if they defeat the primal in the special battle.

2) Once a free company gets the card, that free company can enter into a blood pact with that primal (so the primal can get the card back).

3) Once the blood pact is entered, summoners from that free company are able to summon that primal's avatar for one earth week before the pact expires and another card must be obtained.

If the special primal battle was sufficiently challenging, it would still be a rare sight to see ifrit's or leviathan's avatar being summonable by a player. Furthermore, once entered into a pact with one primal, it would not be possible to enter into a pact with another until the first pact expires. (or entering into another pact cancels the first)

This way, summoners can be happy, avatar's can be rare, and everyone wins.

[sorahitoshi]

I hope smn will be even better then ffxi