How Would You Do... Summoner?

[Silverquick]

OP here,

Not trying to appear authoritarian or anything, but just to clarify, let me restate the premise for the thread: if you were to have made the Summoner, e.g. before there was a ever an implementation of the XIV 2.0 Summoner, or revised it for 3.0, how would you have done it?

Clunky systems are definitely a concern worth mentioning, but their existence does not preclude later mechanics built upon them, so long as it's feasible that those systems could still be revised.

I'm still working on my own example, which has unfortunately bloated into multiple pages worth of documentation... I'll finish it up and then try to trim it down, or at least break it into several sections of hide-able text.

Cool...

But I am also here as someone who actually plays the job... and Mains it.

Here to bring to you and everyone else here... the reality of playing an actual Summoner, and including class balance lessons with our other sister jobs, and a direct focus on what the Arcanist > Summoner/Scholar actually is and their roles.

Along with all the other realities you need to think about.