Summoner's Job Evolution

[ChainedMouse]

You know, I thought the same what with the size of the summons.. but honestly, after seeing them, making them larger would get in the way of game mechanics. People who click on their targets instead of using the keyboard would have to reposition their camera and such like crazy if the summons were too large, though maybe a tad larger would be neat.

Not to mention, making them larger would make their ranges silly, and increasing the range to be proportionate would be too much.

Would be neat if there were spells that involved a summoned creature, beast, etc who then performed an aoe or targeted attack and then went on cooldown.. kinda like the classic summons from the older games, appearing for their attack and disappearing. Though, that idea would be a complete change to the class that will more than likely never happen.


EDIT: Oh, and for the record, don't bother going "Oh, you are only lvl 29 arcanist, not even a summoner yet" I've seen summoners running around, so... still have an idea about that particular point.

[Xolotl]

I think they should remove the Egi idea, why giving us Lowered primals ? Give us High Elemental/Holy Spirits and Beasts instead !!!

Leave the Primals to the beast tribes, they're like Racial Deities in FFTA, they shouldn't be able to be summoned by a summoner, the FC summoning one is a good idea though.

But give us full entities like Carbuncle is, it's not like there's not enough summons that exists through all the FF series !

Why not giving us let's say, cerberus as a fire pet ? Ixion as a lightning one ? Valefor as wind, and so on...

Those summons would be a less powerful "life-form" than the primals, but would still make us feel like summoners, because they would be complete, detailed, and maybe as big as a mount can be ? We don't need it to be bigger than the current mount !

We all know it's not a graphical/technical restriction, when we see the amounts of Magitek armor wandering everywhere...

I think they should tweak the lore a bit, and give the summoner real summons, we don't need the formal Ifrit/Shiva/Ramuh/Titan etc. summons, they have so many that they could give us instead !

[Akiza]

I think they should remove the Egi idea, why giving us Lowered primals ? Give us High Elemental/Holy Spirits and Beasts instead !!!

Why not giving us let's say, cerberus as a fire pet ? Ixion as a lightning one ? Valefor as wind, and so


I think they should tweak the lore a bit, and give the summoner real summons, we don't need the formal Ifrit/Shiva/Ramuh/Titan etc. summons, they have so many that they could give us instead !

They wouldn't give us High Elementals like Carbuncle because that's what the Egi's are right now and High Spirits like Cerberus, Ixion and Valefor are equivalent to the Primals in other Final Fantasy titles except they are the smaller version of the Primals so either way Square would make it so as your Summoner grows in power you Egi's would become a smaller version of the Primals.