Dev silence about SMN

[Behb]

SMN was uber compared to BLM in 2nd coil (before blm buff), now BLM is uber in final Coil.
That's how SE balanced jobs it seems ...

[abzoluut]

To be honest, I think they either have no band aid fix for SMN or, they plan something big for SMN in 3.0. I'm talking removing base classes so it's easier for them to make jobs (hence all the 3.0 w/o a base class).

I hope they finally notice the bad decision they made of keeping 1.0 jobs as classes for 2.0. We need to get rid of this horrid 1.0 remnant.

[Shikiseki]

If anyone is still shocked or surprised about this dev-ignorance, you must be new to this game...
I bet every employee that mentions SMN gets kicked out of the SE-HQ-skyscraper xD

[shintashi]

Rydia was a summoner, in ff4. look close at that storyline. She began with the power to cast both black mage and white mage spells of low level. She went full "black" and could cast fire 3, lit 3, Nuke/Flare, and Meteo. As a summoner she had Titan, but also Leviathan, Odin, and Bahamut. Her Class was "summoner" but it was also basically pure Black Mage.

The Sage Class from that Game had Both Black mage and White mage spells maxed out but no Summons at all. And the Main White Mage was also a competent Archer. You see what I'm getting at here?

As content expands and our overall power scale increases, I think looking to the past is a good place to find new abilities and patterns for our existing class/job mess.

[Sanguisio]

SMNs in FF have typically been a SMN+one of the mages.

Yuna - WHM
Ultimecia - Time mage
Rydia - BLM
Eiko/Dagger - WHM

[AxelDH]

Hopefully, Summoners will have their name changed soon... lets call them High Arcanists or something.

Then they could release a true Summoner class, with real Final Fantasy Summon attacks!

I'm talking 3 minute long unskippable attack animations, explosions, lazer beams, camera shots from outer space, explosions, disintegrating planets, and EXPLOSIONS!!

[FyrmurlFloerasksyn]

Hopefully, Summoners will have their name changed soon... lets call them High Arcanists or something.

Then they could release a true Summoner class, with real Final Fantasy Summon attacks!

I'm talking 3 minute long unskippable attack animations, explosions, lazer beams, camera shots from outer space, explosions, disintegrating planets, and EXPLOSIONS!!

They will probably be kicked halfway thourgh the animation lol

[Akiza]

SMNs in FF have typically been a SMN+one of the mages.

Yuna - WHM
Ultimecia - Time mage
Rydia - BLM
Eiko/Dagger - WHM

But Summoner in this game is Arcanist + Summoner when it should be the other way around.

[Greenbean]

At this point I'd be happy with a new egi or two but I doubt it's ever going to happen sadly.

[Meier]

At this point I'd be happy with a new egi or two but I doubt it's ever going to happen sadly.

And for the love of god and all things holy MAKE CONTIGATION A SMN SKILL NOT GARUDAS!! Else the new egis wonr be used ;;