Quote Originally Posted by Neophyte View Post
2. There are many things that speak against the 'usual' summons:
1: They don't need to be as large as the originals, just larger then your character on average. You could also implement a transparent effect when summons get between you and the camera.
2: Elemental properties could be something they implement correctly on the back end, since it's sort of there but doesn't really do anything atm. It's really no different then distinguishing Black Mages spells as is.
3: This still leaves room for debuffs and buffs, and CC is still will have it's usages, just not on bosses.
4: A summoner could buff/debuff, keep their summon alive, perhaps resource management.
5: Lore wise I'd imagine that first you wouldn't be summoning the primals themselves, but rather smaller avatars of them, lowing the cost requirement. But perhaps the advent of new technology to fill in the gaps and make the process easier. Like how computers made complex calculations easy.