Summoner revamp

[Kaeoni]

@OP, Agreed.
The Summons should play a FAR greater role than they currently do. What we're currently playing in XIV isn't a summoner. And I think the titles of these jobs are pretty important. If you're going to label a job as a Summoner it should be a Summoner. Summoner as it stands in the game is fine. It functions great and It's fun.Strip the jobs title from it and aside from the actual avatar related abilities which are in the minority and are nothing less than supplemental damage and utility to your kit; the class could have been literally named anything. I mean really, make up a new class for the FF franchise, you have the ability to do that, or some other DoT class that exists that i don't care to research. 80% of it's toolkit has nothing to do with your Avatar. Which traditionally in the franchise these numbers would have been flipped. I'm fine with the Actual summoner doing actions to supplement Avatar Damage. But currently it's the other way around.

I've never been upset with how Summoner as it stands currently performs. But It would have been a better move to strip the Avatars from the class, Or lock the Class into Carbuncle only (the best looking Avatar in the game which we almost never see) and named the class something else. Leaving the Summoner title to a real summoner where the power is flipped from The Carbuncle wielding Dot Spreader.

You don't have to agree with me. But that's how I would have done things.

However... Summoner was one of the classes hinted at by SE for the release of 2.0 which got even myself hyped. It was "accidently" shown on their site even. I believe it's burdened with it's Arcanists Background, and I'm not sure how you fix a class without making most of it's current toolkit either worthless or removing it entirely for Avatar heavy related abilities and skills.

I believe it was that hype that SE wanted for the 2.0 release. Everyone knows what summoner is and how cool a class it was. So in that sense, mission accomplished.