Summoner changes that should happen onto 7.0

[aveyond-dreams]

I cannot think of a more inaccurate manner to gauge class interest and satisfaction than by going off of savage alone. Doing that led to the gutting of Astrologian's cards in favor of only damage up buffs with everything else rendered "useless" despite how much players outside that content liked having that sort of variety of effects to play with.

People favoring Summoner in savage fights does not mean that the experience was a particularly good one for people outside of content where min-maxing damage is no longer an issue, such as dungeons, alliance raids, and Bozja. Shadowbringers Summoner demanded too much work and juggling compared to all other classes in the game, on top of its already punishing nature. I refused to take the class outside of normal content prior to my abandoning it, let alone anything harder than extremes. I did those on Red Mage and Dancer instead.

It didn't work. So it was changed. The few cannot be allowed to dictate over the many in this case, especially not the top players who demanded people get good when the class was suffering from more frequent glitches than it is now, as if that worked as a check on the player's skill. You can't ask me to get good when that is what we're dealing with. A handful of ex-WoW streamers have also cited numerous times that changing things to fit around high end raiders from anything to requirements to get into the raid to how abilities work also makes for an unfun experience for anyone outside that group.

I only hope that whatever future caster is added to FFXIV picks a theme and niche and stays with it rather than trying to be everything at once.