Arcanist and Summoner artwork

[Valandor]

I think the summoner attack system will be something similar what 'Leon D.S. Gehste' from 'Star Ocean the Second Story' does with his book invoking monsters from within the book to make special attacks to the enemy instead of the old summoner system that had a pet on the side half of the time.

[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.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I want a tonberry to tank for me, not carbuncle.

[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.

[Meow_Zedong]

So if Arcanist's use books now instead of tech-staves, than what class is Urianger?

[KoujiGeki]

sorry i do disagree enfeebling in 11 was awesome. im proud to say i was one of the few rdm on siren that could effectivly cat silence on kirin before 80+ cap

[Jennestia]

So if Arcanist's use books now instead of tech-staves, than what class is Urianger?

He was indeed Arcanist -- ARR they're pretty much revising it.

[Bowen]

I want a tonberry to tank for me, not carbuncle.

And I want a pretty pink pony, but we can't always have what we want now can we?

[KoujiGeki]

hahahahaha i like that