Summoner Pet's design and appearance

[Jandor]

I doubt a swap with tri-disaster and contagion would ever happen since tri-disaster has a unique animation to it. Contagion is no doubt a good ability. It's so good it invalidates the use of the other summons.

It was a mistake to give the Summoner abilities that are buffed by the pet, it should be the other way around IMHO. Tri-disaster is a cool looking spell but I think SE would be best cutting their losses with it.

A shield oath equivalent may be to much for Titan, but a Defiance style buff without the HP increase might work. Sustain and Physick would work better with him and allow Titan to be used as a tank more often but the active component should prevent the Summoner ignoring it to the same extent a Shield Oath type buff would.
Titan could use some changes to be a better tank, but I don't think anyone wants it to be overly viable to run content without a tank at all because Titan can do it just as well.

Edit:
I'd have Ifrit have a complete single target melee focus. As I said before I'd have his Radiant Shield effect work as an AoE on anyone close to him enabling it to apply to the tank and any other melee DPS there. I'd change Flaming crush to be single target and grant Ifrit a slight damage boost when used (or possibly a debuff that increases damage taken on the enemy.)

On Titan I'd change Earthen Ward to be a defiance style buff granting Titan a passive 15% hp restore buff, a 20% emnity buff but a 20% damage decrease. I'd also change Landslide to function as a provoke without the +1 effect. You wouldn't be able to steal aggro with it, but if the character the enemy was focused on stopped attacking then Titan would be able to take the lead.

Garuda as mentioned before would lose Contagion but gain Tri-disaster (or something similar) and have the pushback effect removed from Shockwave. Instead Shockwave would place a 'windburn' DoT on the enemy which would be affected by Contagion and Bane. It wouldn't be an impressive DoT but it would be something the SMN and Garuda could work together on to decent effect. Aerial Slash, Tri-disaster and a DoT that can be spread through Bane would make her a good ranged AoE pet but leave her single target damage unimpressive next to Ifrit.

The pets current Enkindles are ok but I'd like to see the damage increased on them (especially Ifrit) but at a cost of locking that particular summon out for the duration of Enkindles CD.


Possibly wildly unbalanced, any changes to Summoner would obviously have to looked at with far more care than I have here. The class is very well balanced and fun as it is, but that doesn't mean it couldn't use some tweaking here and there.


Edit2: Also, I'll say it again. Spur should physically increase the size of the pet 40 to 50% for its duration. It's an incredibly minor change that I'd enjoy as I like the flashy stuff .