When is summoner getting ramuh/shiva/levi?

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

LOl you guys, "I dont like summoner, so the devs need to totally rework it!!!!" stop crying. I do like summoner, and while the egis could look a little better (more like the primals and not like a rock or pteradactyl). It's fine the way it is. Its a DoT dps, with a pet. The only thing really wrong with summoner is their single target dps isnt great. Ive seen 1150 dps in aoe situations with RagingStrikes+Bane.

Summoner is fine. If you dont like it dont play it. Even if the devs did overhaul it, it would just piss off the existing summoners.

[GalkaBikini]

Egis are small because the game revolves around dodging the warning zones on the ground. Imagine doing Crystal Tower with a bunch of actual sized Titans covering your screen. Not to mention their spell graphics/animations as well. Better yet, imagine doing Titan Extreme with multiple summoners in your group. :\ Not that I don't understand what it is people expected and continue to want for the SMN job. I'd say at least wait and see what happens in Heavensward though.

[CGMidlander]

Egis are small because the game revolves around dodging the warning zones on the ground. Imagine doing Crystal Tower with a bunch of actual sized Titans covering your screen. Not to mention their spell graphics/animations as well. Better yet, imagine doing Titan Extreme with multiple summoners in your group. :\ Not that I don't understand what it is people expected and continue to want for the SMN job. I'd say at least wait and see what happens in Heavensward though.

[GalkaBikini]

Pretty much, lol. Thank God you can't ride those in CT ;P

[KaedrianLiang]

Covering 4/5th the screen with chocobos wasn't enough. That one just had go flailing into the camera.

[Hexy]

[ThirdKeyOfSun]

I know a lot of people would disagree with me but I wouldn't mind it in the least if summoning Leviathan-Egi 1) created a short range aura that pulsed a low HP regen, 2) lowered the summoner's damage potency significantly and 3) increased the summoner's healing potency to that just below a dedicated healer.

The idea would be if a healer died you could raise them and while they are regaining MP you could emergency heal for a short time. Position Leviathan where the regen aura could do the most good and start healing. It would also be handy in open world low player situations or if a healer is removed from a dungeon and the group wanted to continue until a replacement could be found.

Again I know a lot of people would not want this (possibly even because of XI) but utility at the cost of damage (only with that Egi out) would not be such a bad thing perhaps.

[RaideDuku]

How about Summoner's steal Iceheart's little trick for their LB3? Of course, since we don't have piles of crystals lying around, whatever energy the LB gauge represents only let's us hold the form long enough for one good attack.

Would make SMN's seem a bit more epic, for sure.

[Hagen]

They already said we would be getting those 3. Now if only that it would be very boring. All others jobs are getting 4+ new skills to use as part of their new arsenal, while we might just be stuck with the new "best" summon. I think a pet switch skill mechanic could add a lot to SMN, we need more stuff to diferenciate ourself from just arcanists.

It is funny we didnt get bigger summons so they could keep their "tough and too powerful image", but just look at what has this image become on Primal Hard Mode runs...

[NinjaTaru72]

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I dunno, I've seen full 18man summoner alliances in XI, no problems for ps2, having all that on the screen.
Could see the ground pretty well to.


Don't get me wrong. I like summoner now also, as I said I was going to main it. Till everyone got on the "you have to use... Or your no good"

But I wouldn't mind them making it more XI styled.

It can be done. They are just making excuses. Anyone Who believes the ps3 causes these limitations has no idea what they are talking about. The ps3 has dulled down graphics. Already, the bigger egi styles would just be dulled down. I mean seriously. If the ps2 and XI summons can look that much better there's no reason the ps3 can't at least match it.