Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
Utility when you are forced to press it as part of your rotation ends up next to useless. It’s why the current pheonix heals are near useless, because you can’t optimise their use into your rotation if the healing necessary doesn’t fall during pheonix anyway. Shiva having “mana regen” isn’t utility it’s basically just the mana regen on aetherflow.

My idea (which is just throwing anything at the wall) would be to leave Bahamut on a 1 minute CD but make the primals each much longer but have each one have distinctive phases or longer looping rotations that build to bigger damage but you have to summon every primal before Bahamut. So like let’s say titan has a 40 second rotation that builds to a big nuke, but then Garuda has 2 rotations, one that leads to mana regen and the other that leads to its current ground DOT. Ifrit could have something else I haven’t got that far. So you don’t have enough time to do everything on every primal so you have to prioritise what you want every time you finish a Demi phase based on what you need at the time
see? its an overhaul, you gotta change a lot how the 3 primals work. and in the end it makes SMN feels like simply another mage. SMN identity is summoning the right summon at the right time, instead of using a plethora of elemental magic under a summon.
the addition of S/L/R on the other hand, can add the depth without overhauling, and gives SMN the 'choice' they need to have, by having 6 options instead of 3 options.