Disciples of Magic

[Orca]

If summoner popped up i could see maybe 50% of the population switching to it given the immense demand ive seen just about everywhere, from DoW and DoM alike, even non players i see asking on websites if we can summon things like in the console FFs. I think theres very few people who wouldn't want to be capable of summoning monsters, whether theyre traditional Ifrits/Leviathans/Titans etc or something a little different.

If it were implemeted, i think thered be a huge swarm of Summoners all over every server, but it would either fall drastically or retain its number depending on how they went about making it. The treatment of the XI incarnation was horrendous and i think many are excited about having one as a DD specific class.

Honestly though, i dont think now is the time for new base classes. I know its unfair that magic fans only have 2 (eventually 4) options compared to the melees but i think SE will really have their hands full just sorting out all the rebalancing for what we have, and what we'll be getting. More classes means more jobs, thats more work and more time. I think maybe they should just fix the base classes, get the base jobs out and deal with 1.19/1-22-ish (which im hoping will sort out most of the foundational system issues) before they look upon expanding existing options.