Summoner a whole disappointment for pet-class lovers?

[Tonkra]

Yes, we dont have that many information for now concerning the new summoner job.. but what we know so far is that he only will have 4 pets to summon (seems to be due to 5 skill restriction for jobs. thank you SE) and the new artwork... where it seems that the summons for the job wont be "real pets".

it looks like they will be just "essences" of the big primaes and end up as super animated one-hit attack spell? Hopefully not... because we player who enjoy playing petclasses wanted to have a real petclass for 2.0. (thats what yoshida was saying back then)

Now it seems only the arcanist will be a real petclass which we are used to.. But only with two different types of carbuncle.



what do you think about the artwork and information about summoner, just having 4 types of "summons" and regarding to the artwork?


Arcanist with a real pet:


Summoner coming along with one-hit attack "summon spells"?
on the artwork it does not look like a permanent pet, more like a ghostly spell version which works like a regular spell.



are you disappointed about the announcement as well? First i was "aaww freaking awesome"... but then i was like... "oooh just 4 prime versions, why? no shiva? no ramuh to summon?" then i was like "oh maybe they just end up as super animated spells in the end?"


i know that its maybe too early to talk about that.. but i dislike the first impressions and informations we got so far.

[kurokawa]

They might add elementals as with ffxi, so you could summon earth, water, fire etc.

Then again, you might just be stuck with the 4.

4 is better than none though eh?!

[Tonkra]

They might add elementals as with ffxi, so you could summon earth, water, fire etc.

you forgot the "5 skill limitations for jobs"

and well the elementals have been the last pets which i wanted to have in the game.. seriously... totally deplaced and unimportant. i dont want to summon "pets" which looks like a wandering stone... then i really dont need a pet.

4 is better than none though eh?!

Seriously i am sick of that "we have to limit the number of job skills to 5." regardless which job. in my opinion they should have that many skills, that it makes sense for the job itself.

and how do they make the decision which primae spell version summoner is going to get? do they dice or somethin? ah well.. let us give them garuda... for what reason ever.. ;XD


and as i said i am most afraid of the fact that they may be no real "pets" to summon to your side.

[Randelmire]

I thought summoner sounded badass.

Also it will be only 4 summons for now but they may very well add more summons when level cap is raised.

[Raubahn]

well smn is a pet class as far as i know only diffrance we wont summon The Ifrit it gonna be more like an ifrit spirit or essence roaming with you
not to mention there is no raise cap so for now 4 at 50 is pretty much alot and dont forget they are changing class>job system so we might end up with 10 job abilities rather than just 5 (restricting 5 class abilities not able to be used by "Job" like SMN cant summon carby) maybe

[Tonkra]

so we might end up with 10 job abilities rather than just 5

but having 4 pets sounds to me very like the 5 skill restriction that we have now. 4 skills for the new summons... 1 skill (15 minutes) for astral flow. basic skills from arcanist.

and i think its just annoying, that they cut the number of pets just regarding to that stupid job skill limit.its like the thing with leaving water spells out of the game.. the same stupid thing.

well smn is a pet class as far as i know only diffrance we wont summon The Ifrit it gonna be more like an ifrit spirit or essence roaming with you

if thats the case i am okay with it... you mean like in FF11?

they also could end up as animated one-hit spells... like odin in FF11 or whatever. because the artwork does not look to me that they are going to be permanent pets which are "roaming" with you.

if you understand what i mean.

[Laughlyn]

Feels kinda dissapointing, however like you said...we still dont have all the details.
Hopefully we can atleast try the class/job in beta.

Still hoping for a Beastmaster class with option to tame ingame mobs (maybe not all),
and also option to rename, customize them in some way.

[Raubahn]

but having 4 pets sounds to me very like the 5 skill restriction we have now. 4 skills for the new summons... 1 skill (15 minutes) for astral flow.

yes and 5 other to control the pet "attack> draw> buff > ws and retreat as in unsummon" :P

[Tonkra]

yes and 5 other to control the pet "attack> draw> buff > ws and retreat as in unsummon" :P

no... these are going to be the basic skills from arcanist for sure... you have to use "attack" "buff" etc. for carby as well.

[Tremain]

Somewhat disappointing but we have seen pictures of Leviathan, Ramuh, and Titan.
You have to remember that Level 50 is not the cap and we will get access to more avatars and abilities.
There will be many more levels for SE to fully develop all jobs.