Inevitable Job Simplifications?

[ty_taurus]

Yeah I can't agree with that or we're having different interpretations of what "disjoint" means. Disjoint for me is isolated pieces or independent and current SMN has a lot of independent blocks that don't interact with each other at all. Old SMN had dependencies, abilities resetting because of using other ones, the potency of Fester altering because of because of DoTs, using Egi-assaults before so we get to use Ruin IV during Bahamut to take most of it... I can't see this as disjoint at all.

I can understand your point if you mean that those abilities are not of same nature to be interacting with each other, because as a job system when you look at them as purely skills and abilities they did interact.

I just hope they free Bahamut/Phoenix from being a requirement to accessing the legos and add more additional abilities to fill the gaps the job has on next expansion.

I mean, I'll definitely grant that SMN was never a major part of my gameplay experience prior, so my opinion is definitely one worth taking with a grain of salt, but it was the one DPS I played at least somewhat frequently at times prior to ShB since ARR.

But what I liked about SB SMN was that it felt like most of what you did was all working toward this one big moment where you summoned Bahamut. ShB removed that aspect, and the Egi Assaults into Ruin IV didn't contribute to that either. It felt like the thing I wanted to do, which is summon, was always interrupted by fidget tasks to keep my damage decent until I could summon again. The remaining connection Tri-Disaster had with summons was the one thing that felt connective.

EDIT: You know, having said that, wouldn't it be an incredibly simple change to just rearrange the Ifrit/Titan/Garuda relationship with Bahamut/Phoenix? Like instead of Bahamut and Phoenix granting you 1 of each gem, what if Summon Ifrit/Titan/Garuda gives you that respective gem instead of taking it, and you need to have 3 different gems to summon Bahamut or summon Phoenix? Like, that's not the magic cure for everything, but it immediately allows you to just resummon Titan if you need to delay your burst, and also makes it very easy to add a 4th summon potentially that is interchangable and has some other element that encourages all 4 see use throughout the fight at different times?

You can still summon Bahamut right away at the beginning of an instance for your opener.