Quote Originally Posted by Cabalabob View Post
At this point I honestly think they should just rip the bandaid off and get rid of carbuncle and turn everything into nothing more than animations, similar to dissidia’s Yuna. I have HATED that suggestion every time I’ve seen it come up in the past when people talk about SMN reworks, but we’re basically there already and carbuncle is just a delusion that we’re still a pet job. If they removed him and just made it so when you used radiant aegis a carbuncle jumped out of your book, shone a light on the target then vanished, I don’t think it would make any difference at all…

They could then rework the gem summons into just animations as well, replace the gemshine animations with just an egi coming out of your shoulder and launching the attack, demi-summons could be put on a stack system similar to what other jobs are getting like WAR’s inner release, other than that they wouldn’t need to change because there’s no janky carbuncle interaction for them anymore and we’re there.

It’s not the route I would have chosen personally. In my opinion SMN was on the right track with stormblood and particularly shadowbringers, it just needed some refining. But the endwalker rework killed my hope that they could give me the summoner I wanted to see.
I support doing this as well but since they got so committed to the Demi idea they also messed SCH up with it so they would also have to do something to fix SCH which can still kinda cling to the title of pet job