Archanists want an image of primals...not Digimons

[Esmian]

I'd like to direct you to my two threads.

English: (Un)Official Arcanist/Summmoner Feedback Thread (58 pages)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...eedback-Thread
Japanese: 召喚士に関するフィードバックを書くスレ (25 pages)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...82%B9%E3%83%AC

Criticisms of your points would be A.) emerald/garuda and topaz/titan would have similar skillsets because the later egi are basically upgraded versions of them since they're replacing those spots. I think that's fine and the real question is whether additional egis can be more diverse past the tank, melee, ranged summons that smn have now and B.) I'm not sure you really addressed why Ifrit needs to be changed.

The reason Ifrit is regarded by nearly everyone as not being as useful in PVE as Garuda is because it provides nearly zero synergy to the caster(for some reason you suggest giving it a skill that will reduce the targets physical defense? also there's no way in the world you're going to have pet abilities on a 10-30s timer) and that it's nearly impossible to keep ifrit out of danger due to constant melee ranged aoe which either results in a smn constantly burning MP to either keep sustain up on ifrit or through having to resummon it in the middle of a fight.

[Spellbinder]

Criticisms of your points would be A.) emerald/garuda and topaz/titan would have similar skillsets because the later egi are basically upgraded versions of them since they're replacing those spots. I think that's fine and the real question is whether additional egis can be more diverse past the tank, melee, ranged summons that smn have now and B.) I'm not sure you really addressed why Ifrit needs to be changed.

The reason Ifrit is regarded by nearly everyone as not being as useful in PVE as Garuda is because it provides nearly zero synergy to the caster(for some reason you suggest giving it a skill that will reduce the targets physical defense? also there's no way in the world you're going to have pet abilities on a 10-30s timer) and that it's nearly impossible to keep ifrit out of danger due to constant melee ranged aoe which either results in a smn constantly burning MP to either keep sustain up on ifrit or through having to resummon it in the middle of a fight.

Criticism and discussion are more than welcome, but that wasn't really the point of my post. I was simply trying to get across that there are (or at least were since people don't post in the English thread anymore) people saying more than just "SUMMON SHOULD DO BIG DAMAGE."

I welcome anyone and everyone to post in the thread I linked and get some discussion going. Considering it was mentioned at Nico Nico Choukaigi 3 that they will be revisiting the Egi in light of the fact that introduction of new Egi will require rebalancing, I can't think of a better time than now to start offering feedback.