Quote Originally Posted by jars View Post
so what exactly would you do when your summon is not out?

dots and summons work well together, because dots let you deal damage while focusing on your pet.
That implies you really have a lot to focus on with your pet. If we are going to go down the "if i had it my way" path, I would do a couple things differently. I would maybe have rather then any attack skills as smn job you just exclusively summon abilities. You summon that pet and they do an attack until they die or you switch pets. The level 1 pet can be one that uses a basic attack. The level 2 pet could be a pet that uses aoe dmg. The level 3 pet could inflict debuffs. The level 4 pet could buff etc. I would eliminate the conveniently written in lore that suggests you need to beat a primal before you could summon it. I would remove the conveniently written lore that says our egi's have to look like random 3d textures lumped together. Tri disaster I'll argue to the death is a completely useless skill, enkindle as it currently is might as well be useless and I would much rather have a different summon that was perhaps on a timer that did equal damage. Fester I would gladly get rid of again for a summoner class that actually focused on summoning. Spur as it is I would rather have removed in place of a summon skill and then add half of its utility to rouse, I think it's really unnecessary that we have 2 separate buffs for pet damage when we could of had another skill.

If I'm being 100% honest the arcanist/summoner class honestly feels like it was thrown together with random ideas and then they picked a random name to apply to it then wrote in a few lines of lore to justify their reasoning behind things. Has yoshi actually made an offical comment as to why summoner is a dot class? It also confuses me how for a summoner job 2/5 skills have nothing to do with summoning. Tri disaster I really challange anyone to give me a good reason as to why that skill fits in with summoners, and again fester could of been replaced with any number of other skills. Sorry this turned into a bit of a rant but I just am really dissapointed with how this class is.