Another Summoner thread

[Awka]

FFXI Summons:

Carbuncle
Garuda
Ifrit
Leviathan
Titan
Shiva
Ramuh
Diabolos
Fenrir
Fire Spirit
Ice Spirit
Air Spirit
Earth Spirit
Lightning Spirit
Water Spirit
Light Spirit
Dark Spirit

FFXIV Summons:
Ifrit, Garuda, Titan (Summoner)
2 Fairies and a Carbuncle (Scholar)

In FFXI Summoners, who had 17 different summons available, had a 2-Hour ability to unleash their particular summons most powerful AoE Attack, along with 8-10 different abilities per summon.

In FFXIV a Summoner (Anarchist and Scholar included) only have 3 summons apiece with only 5 abilities each.

Having the summoner class the "DoT" class feels like we're being really cheated out of what a summoner is actually supposed to be. Summons themselves need to be more of the focus on a "Summoner" class rather than the amount of damage the summoner themselves can dish out. I like the idea of having your character abilities tied to those of your summon.

[Babydoll]

To be fair...Summoner wasn't released until about a year and a half or so after FFXI's release. It also took SE quite a long time to tweak FFXI SMN. At first it was just mostly a /WHM. At 70 you could do the powerful attacks...so it was nice in end game but still they'd do that every minute (If MP allowed it) and then spam cure/NA stuff. >.>

Give it some time...hehe personally I enjoy SMN a lot but I see what people are saying when they feel its underwhelming compared to the traditional FF games ^^;

[Kalandros]

I hope you nay-sayers realize that SMN are getting every other Primal SMN as they are released, right?

Lair of Ramuh, Leviathan, etc are already in the game just inaccessible for now.