Avatar Possession Job Class

[Airget]

I had a similar idea way before they released the game when you consider how the game mechanics work you would imagine that it be hard to have a pet job to command along with your own attacks.

With that in mind the basic concept was the it would be Astral Projection and while you were controlling said avatar your body would be open for attack. The perp cost would be based on how far away you are from your body and if you end up dying by not being protected you would leave the Astral state. Basically you would also have a set radius of how far you could go so you would have to strategically place your body in the perfect spot when fighting.

To counter this the Summoner would also have the Kobold ability of being able to Conjure up spells to do basic elemental attacks using the "gods" grace to help you. But their main weapon of choice in party would be "Astral Projection" while Conjuring would act more as a backup or solo when you don't have the time to Project yourself into an avatar.

When you consider how they wanna make the game very active and moving you would thinka concept like this would fit into the game with your gear determining how well you can control the avatar.

There are a lot of ways they can go about it, it would be cool if they release ideas that they have for pet jobs soon I'd like to see what they have in mind first before actually fully fleshing out an idea.

[Denmo]

Some of these suggestions are really outlandish in terms of game balance/design.

Just give me Blue Mage k thx.

[Azurus]

wasnt carbuncle a tonberry back in the day?

EDIT: hmmmm after doing some research apparently i was confused....i wonder why i thought that...I felt like i saw a tonberry named carbuncle before but i guess i was wrong.

[DeadRiser]

I actually like this idea. But I would keep it to a minimal level.

Go back to Morrigan in Dragon Ages. She could transform herself into a giant spider that did great damage. Nothing like the primals, summons, or gods. More like the things you fight.

[FilthyDisco]

This would be more suitable for a Shapeshifter class of sorts.

[AceofRains]

An idea for the future summoner job class thats a bit non traditional to the series.

Instead of summoning a pet to your side to do battle, the player offers their body as a host to the Avatar/Spirit causing a type of demon possession and body disfiguration.

Examples

Carbuncle
Appearance: The player has a green fox tail and a big ruby on their forehead.
Role: Healer/Support

Fenrir
Appearance: The player has massive claws and a werewolf like head.
Role: Melee damage dealer

Tonberry
Appearance: Large ragged hood covering the body with shrouded face. Similar to the traditional tonberry look.
Role: Debuffer

Just an idea.

Thoughts?

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Reminds me of morpher from tactics, which is a class I really wanna see in ffxiv. id be kinda like druid from wow i guess, cept only the feral part.

[Sypherblade]

Gilgamesh
Appearance: Grow 4 additional arms all holding different swords
Role: Melee Damage Dealer

[MartaDemireux]

Would hate to be one of the animators tasked with such an idea... Each transformation for each race for each gender for each face/body/hair style for each type of armor ... so on and so forth haha. I don't think we'll ever see a transformation class, lest we lose all identification of our character in the process. This topic was also talked about a few months back, I remember commenting a few times in it.

Edit: Found it. Just linking to my post because I'm too lazy to click things to make it the original

[Dalmore]

Cool idea only problem with this op would be every summoner would be forced to switch to carby and be a healer.. anyone who's played FFXI or heck almsot any other mmo would vouch for this pretty cool though but yea i really want to have the avatars or w/e out with me controling them and doing my thing.

[Sypherblade]

Cool idea only problem with this op would be every summoner would be forced to switch to carby and be a healer.. anyone who's played FFXI or heck almsot any other mmo would vouch for this pretty cool though but yea i really want to have the avatars or w/e out with me controling them and doing my thing.

well since this game relies on only two mage classes, yes, the demand for a healer would rise far above the demand for a damager dealer or even a support role.... can't have a group without a healer....so was the fate of ffxi's smn.... even if they were just spamming cure I