Quote Originally Posted by TheRealMadruck View Post
I don't like the direction they took Summoner what so ever. I enjoyed Summoner being a "dot" job as it made it unique amoung all the other casters in comparison to what we have today.
I do understand that this potentially creates room for a new DoT job to replace it. SE was just torn between it summoning things and it being about DoTs so they had to choose one, and the choice was obvious. It's a summoner and needs to summon things.

I think they should either create a new job that fills the role that Summoner once did, or they can put that focus into Bard which is still a DoT job.

It took aspects of previous Summoners in past games and mixed into a job that used spells that were historically key to past FF games. Miasma, Bio...these Dot spells have been a cornerstone to FF history. Yet they are gone with only SCH or healers in general having a Job variation of them. I believe that SE could have kept some aspects of what made Summoner unique while including the newer aspects they added. I.E., they could have kept the dots, Ifrit Phase could have had its dot that it had from the original design, then Garuda had Miasma and Titan had Bio(alot of fantasy games have earth type spells/abilities tied to poison/disease type spells). But these are merely my thoughts.
I didn't really know that about all the poison spells.

I ask you...do you play Summoner because you enjoy its aesthetics, the sound of its abilities, the style of how it plays, the utility it provides...or do you play it for a minuscle amount of considerations I have mentioned and mostly because its easy
A combination of it being a real summoner rather than using egis and it being easy. The way it was before put me off in both areas, especially with the abundance of alternatives.

The new summons made me want to try it. I had it up early because of Scholar's instant queues and to do the role quests, and actually playing it clicked with me to a point I was just switching to it for any DPS purposes.

Now if what I was seeing when I was doing that rotation were these little baby summons I might not have stuck with it.

I don't main the DPS role, so if it were just really complicated to play, there are other jobs that are not so they might become easier picks for tasks like farming FATEs or helping people clear normal duties.