What are your thoughts on 2.0's summoning system?

[Viritess]

I figured out the general idea of what you were saying.

An Ifrit Materia or Esper could be used to summon the essence or the effect of Ifrit but to summon him it is to be expected that you can only do it once at any given time. It gives primal's a life of their own when they are treated as autonomous beings and not elements.

The Summoner should really be called a Channeler as they channel Ifrit like power rather than summon.

I suppose your last sentance is really the question, if we define it like that then FF11, from what i understand, would be a Channeler. So going by those definitions, do we prefer a Channeler or a Summoner for FF14?

Personally, i'd rather have a Summoner, working in the bounds of what Yoshi-P has planned as far as we know, would cost us the big name summons. I'm fine with that.