Arcanist/Summoner Abilities and Traits

[Tonkra]

We know there will be 3 versions of Carbuncle to choose from for Arcanist, that of Caster and Melee DPS, and Tank.

As Summoner you gain access to Avatars, or spiritual versions of Primals.

Logic dictates that the first 3 aspected primals we can access, will be the 3 we can earn.

Namely:

Ifrit (confirmed) --- Melee DPS?
Garuda (confirmed) --- Mage?
Titan (only other existing stronghold) --- Theorized as logical tank avatar.

thats also false. Arcanist has 2 versions of carbuncle, melee and mage type.

Summoner will have access to 5 powers of the primals (ifrit and garuda - fire and wind etc) are the only 2 which are confirmed right now.

could have been soo aussum NOT to use Ifrit, Garuda etc.
they could have used alternative summons instead (non primals)

Belias for fire:


Ixion for thunder



you gain these lesser summons by obtaining the essences of the real primals of the specific element when fighting the easy version of the primals. (there will be different difficult options for instances in ARR)

I never said I dislike pet classes. I'm aware of the poll but that doesn't mean this is the petclass they wanted to implement. It takes a LONG time to design and implement a class, I'm fairly certain they were working on ARC/SMN long before that poll went up, we all knew a DoM was coming before anything else because there's only 2 right now.

i really doubt it. arcanist is the reincarnation of a petclass.. very obvious. and yoshi p. was thinking all the time to introduce a petclass. but well we cant ask him about that.

yeah and thats why there is no summoner directly at release just arcanist.

[Colino]

i really doubt it. arcanist is the reincarnation of a petclass.. very obvious. and yoshi p. was thinking all the time to introduce a petclass. but well we cant ask him about that.

yeah and thats why there is no summoner directly at release just arcanist.

Uh what? Reincarnation? Bard is a "reincarnation" of a ranged DPS class, but they're not really a ranged DPS class are they.

And there's no summoner at launch because it's not finished, not because of some weird pet class conspiracy theory you're going on about.

[Tonkra]

Uh what? Reincarnation? Bard is a "reincarnation" of a ranged DPS class, but they're not really a ranged DPS class are they.

well you didnt even know about the poll where a petclass won...

i was following the slightest statements for a petclass since the beginning.. so i think some of YOUR conclusions are wrong

And there's no summoner at launch because it's not finished, not because of some weird pet class conspiracy theory you're going on about.

no i mean summoner isnt ready at launch because you said implementing new classes take a long time.. so its obvious that it was not planned "long time ago" like you have said

"I'm fairly certain they were working on ARC/SMN long before that poll went up"

i didnt mean that SMN is going to be a petclass (very unfortunatley)
if we are receiving a summoner like that

inflationary summoning shit

im going to kill myself ^.^ yes in the offline FF's the summons are one hit attacks. but it wouldnt work for me in an MMO.. especially when a summoner would summon a specific power about 20+ times in a boss fight... wouldnt a summoner lose some of its epicness?


but a wandering Belias for example with a Limit-Break "Astral flow" like that:

Belias Deathblow

would be aussum