Summoner/Make Carbuncle useful again

[LilimoLimomo]

Personally, I don't want to see more from Carbuncle because Carbuncle isn't a proper summon; it's a simple arcane entity, one that even non-Summoners can use. I'd rather see Carbuncle entirely replaced with something more appropriate for Summoner within the lore of FF14.

But regardless, Carby still provides Radiant Aegis, and I think that's fine.

[Raikai]

Personally, I don't want to see more from Carbuncle because Carbuncle isn't a proper summon; it's a simple arcane entity, one that even non-Summoners can use. I'd rather see Carbuncle entirely replaced with something more appropriate for Summoner within the lore of FF14.

But regardless, Carby still provides Radiant Aegis, and I think that's fine.

In fact, I think that's quite the opposite... RA is a defensive utility but most of the time can't be used in an emergency where you didn't predict the incoming damage beforehand or messed up, which kind of defeats the whole purpose. If the incoming damage pattern is already predicted, chances are the mitigation and healers already have it covered.

Every other similar action in the game like Manaward, Shade Shift, etc, have no such handicap of not being usable any time, and to justify RA being as clunky as it is they would need to bake in even more utility into it.

I want the carby to be useful, but RA is not it either. I wouldn't mind if they came up with a basic dps action/combo to be used by the carby in between summons.