Arcanist and Summoner artwork

[KoujiGeki]

you still will have carby though with smn since it's the job off of arcanist so that's why i say you can have them help out with the plumes and such and call carby back to bring forth another summons to help with other things there will be uses. Arcanist though will mainly be used as a solo most likely. =) So yeah i can't wait to see how they both play out. I think I will play around with both for the hell of it

Oh no doubt i love summoner i cant to play it, im just worried it'll start out like Dark Knight did in 11. People might look at why pick a job that enfeeble wont matter if we can kill the mob faster with a DD or just another Blm?

[Punainen]

Oh no doubt i love summoner i cant to play it, im just worried it'll start out like Dark Knight did in 11. People might look at why pick a job that enfeeble wont matter if we can kill the mob faster with a DD or just another Blm?

Here's hoping enfeebling wont be garbage during boss fights like it was in 11...

[Jennestia]

Here's hoping enfeebling wont be garbage during boss fights like it was in 11...

News to me, I can debuff most bosses just fine except for ones with strong affinity for an element, i.e it's impossible to debuff Shiva with Paralyze due to it being aligned to Ice and you can't silence enemies that are castey types or that'd simply make fights too easy lol.

Debuffs in XIV works just fine too on most things, the problem remains with their duration -- it's way too short in some instances.

[Duelle]

Here's hoping enfeebling wont be garbage during boss fights like it was in 11...

This'll depend on whether they'll be dumb and implement stuff like Sleep and Paralyze as enfeebles vs using Attack Down, Defense Down, +Damage Taken, -Attack Speed, and so on. If they focus on the latter rather than the former, make sure that landing the debuffs is not close to impossible without extreme stat stacking, and scale things accordingly, I think debuffs would be fine. I'd be keeping a closer eye on Arcanist and SMN's DoT component, and hope that the DoT component + pet DPS puts them on par with the likes of MNKs, BLMs and DRGs.