Another Upset Summoner

[SpookyGhost]

I'm personally excited for the day when all the people hyped over Akh Morn realize that the novelty will quickly wear off, as it did with Circle of Scorn or Flare.

Also I really do hope that they bother to give SMN more abilities from other Primals if they're going to go that direction, rather than literally just one from Bahamut. I'm fine with them completely shifting focus to making the SMN more about channeling the Eidolon into themselves (like Lady Iceheart does), but just having one for that in the expansion... is pretty disappointing.

And by that I mean LOL AKH MORN XDXDXDXDXD

[pandabearcat]

Where is my mega flare? Lets put BLM to shame.

[gorezilla1]

Actually, Yoshi-P didn't say they're giving the Egi more skills. If you could link me to where you think he said that, I'll double check it, but when listening to the Japanese on the live letter (because the interpreter wasn't exactly on point, no offense to her), I heard nothing of the sort.

http://www.twitch.tv/finalfantasyxiv/v/5280683 Start from 2 hours and 40 mins. He talks about bolstering the pets and adding actions.

Where is my mega flare? Lets put BLM to shame.

Don't dream small. I'm thinking for LB3, we do a full dreadwyrm trance and grow wings of Aether and then Terraflare the arena. Just saying: Pls be excited for E3.

[VanilleFang]

I don't really understand this. SMNs are considered, by most, to be the weakest job right now. Why are you complaining about which pets you can choose from, rather than being happy they you may actually be on par with everyone else?

[Spellbinder]

http://www.twitch.tv/finalfantasyxiv/v/5280683 Start from 2 hours and 40 mins. He talks about bolstering the pets and adding actions.

I figured that would be it. I listened again, and I hear him saying rather than adding pets, in the long term it'd be better to focus on adding to the summoner him or herself. The English QA summary also says as much.

...instead of adding more pets, we felt it better to give more use to the job by adding actions to summoner.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2975182

A lack of new Egi abilities will not surprise me in the coming months after the expansion. Maybe in 4.0.

[Kaonis]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you're upset because you're not getting new worthless pets so you can only use 1 viable one? While instead they are making the current ones more viable, and oh yeah, you LITERALLY CHANNEL BAHAMUT TO SPACE LASER YOUR ENEMIES!

But ya, no new pointless pets is totally a legit reason to get upset.

[Spellbinder]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you're upset because you're not getting new worthless pets so you can only use 1 viable one? While instead they are making the current ones more viable, and oh yeah, you LITERALLY CHANNEL BAHAMUT TO SPACE LASER YOUR ENEMIES!

But ya, no new pointless pets is totally a legit reason to get upset.

I'm assuming this is addressed to me? I'm sorry but your assumptions are misguided. Feel free to skim through my post history if you think I'm bluffing. It would have been nice, but I don't care that we're not getting new pets.

I'm all for improved Egi (and I don't mean aesthetically), and generally more interaction with them in combat, but we're not getting that. Sure, channeling Bahamut's great, and I'll continue playing summoner, but I'd be lieing if I said I didn't think this was a missed opportunity to do something a little more interesting.

[SoloWingMetatron]

Honestly I was hoping for an Egi that was pure AoE to help with speed runs. Guess it was a pipe dream ; ;

Oh yeah that's fair enough, but as Yoshi said all that would be is one extra Egi....but then what? If SMN is ever going to be a "true" SMN (as some people would say) then it needs a wide selection of Egi. Sooner or later SE would run out of unique roles to give the Egi and would have to turn to this glamours system. Also just coz they introduce this glamour system does not mean another Egi play style could come later, once the current Egi play styles are actually balanced and more viable.

[Farrell]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you're upset because you're not getting new worthless pets so you can only use 1 viable one? While instead they are making the current ones more viable, and oh yeah, you LITERALLY CHANNEL BAHAMUT TO SPACE LASER YOUR ENEMIES!

But ya, no new pointless pets is totally a legit reason to get upset.

Different people want different things, and expansions don't roll out all that often. For them to say no new pets and one day you might get a pet glamor, but not on expansion release, on a stream showing off the expansion....yea. And I really don't see what space lasers at the end of your rotation is going to do to help with the shortcoming SMN can have. I feel like SMN will be in a better spot for the expansion than they are with the current patch, but that is because the only way to go is up at this point.

[Craiger]

It should be noted that SMN wasn't so rare before 2.4...

Everyone seem to think, or just have chosen to forget that before 2.4 there were quite a few SMNs around. At least on my server...

It wasn't the most popular by any means, but who cares? MNK is pretty rare too, but by no means boring or bad.

The numbers of SMNs dwindled with 2.4, as they became heavily under-powered compared to other jobs. NIN coming out probably played a role too, but even though SMN are lacking, people liked them, and only left because of that lack of power.

They have kinda fixed their biggest problem, which was running out of MP too early... but they still are weak on DPS compared to their counterparts, and even more importantly, they lack any burst damage at all. They also are behind on AoE damage(which they should, but just comparing). They're behind on everything in other words.

The expansion looks to be fixing all those problems, and I think the number or SMNs in the game will rise again. It won't die just because people are whining on this forum. There are tons of people that doesn't bother to post about it on the forum.