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    Sylvie Nevana
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    Adamantoise
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    Arcanist Lv 100

    Ideas to make smns more summoner like without pet micromangament

    I think summoners are really lacking the appeal of a typical final fantasy summoner. They're built more like warlocks in wow. I know SE doesn't want summoners to get too complicated where you need to have full control of your pet to maximize dps potential. Another aesthetic problem with the summoner is that their egis lack presence due to their diminutive stature. So with that in mind I thought of a possible solution to make summoners more appealing to those who want to see a more typical final fantasy summoner without breaking the game. Instead of enkindle, a new spell should be added to transform you into your currently summoned egi for 20 secs. Thus making the summoner a humanoid sized sized avatar (there is actually lore in the game that this type of event happens so it should reasonable to fit in lore wise with a few adjustments). When in this form, the following dots (miasma, miasma II, bio, and, bio II) will replaced by attacks that are typical used by the primal summoned. All other abilities will be greyed out besides aetherflow, energy drain, swiftcast, and raise. Now with these ability summoners would have greater burst potential so some of its skills might have to be adjusted such as removing ruin II or reducing dot potency but, they're already used to adjusting damage accordingly so it should be doable.

    Another thing they could implement is making multiple summons more viable by allowing summons in their transformed state to provide an elemental debuff. For example Shiva would add the debuff frostbitten which increases the fire based damage of Ifrit and Leviathan would add the debuff waterlogged that increased the lightning based damage of Ramuh (I couldn't come up with a name for Titan-> Garuda but the idea makes sense). Now I realize this idea is a little less likely since summoners would have to blow more of their swiftcasts to switch out summons. Thus, lowering their raise potential. It would probably increase summoners burst potential too much where it would lack the sustainable dps it is known for. I still think its nice idea worth considering though. Anyone else have other ideas to make the summoner more appealing for prior final fantasy players?
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    Last edited by cookiecutter; 12-12-2014 at 01:37 AM.