Summoner and the upcoming changes

[Vallhallix]

For example, then I guess you don't do solo Fates very much with Titan-Egi.

In 3.X, If I engage in a Boss fate (I mean the normal one, not the 30 min special ones), with Sustain skill available to me, Titan-Egi managed to stay alive.

In 4.0, Titan-egi always die, it simply don't have enough HP to survive the length of the fight. Now if my chocobo was healing Titan-Egi like it heals myself, that could be ok, but sadly chocoboes ignore egi. So there is no way to prevent Titan-egi from slowly dying.

Which means I have to re-summon it when it dies. But even using Swiftcast for that purpose, all the aggro the now dead Titan-Egi had built is gone, and the newly summoned one can't catch up with me. It basically defeat the purpose of having a Tank egi, if you have to tank yourself anyway.

So I think for Titan-egi to feel worth again, either at least allow chocobo to heal egis, or give back some version of Sustain even if its less potent than before.

Normal fates? that's it? Just put chocobo in healing stance and tank the hits yourself lol. If I can make it work with a BLM, SMN can without titan. Garuda is better single target anyway, titan just draws out the fight longer. Besides whats the point of doing the lower ones besides level grinding? and there are usually other people around doing those or parties up anyway. I rarely see no one fighting at a boss fate especially in the xpac areas.

[Keian]

Normal fates? that's it? Just put chocobo in healing stance and tank the hits yourself lol. If I can make it work with a BLM, SMN can without titan. Garuda is better single target anyway, titan just draws out the fight longer. Besides whats the point of doing the lower ones besides level grinding? and there are usually other people around doing those or parties up anyway. I rarely see no one fighting at a boss fate especially in the xpac areas.

I think that is the problem why do we even have titan if tank it ourselves would be more efficient. what on earth is the point of having a tank pet when it can't tank. In fact what's the point of having pets if they constantly die. we we're somewhat of a pet class back in 3.x and previously. now if our pets constantly die and we can't summon bahamut (therefore loss in dps), yes we can resummon our pets (loss in mana, swift cast, and global cooldowns). overall a loss in dps and utility. thanks yoshi p </3

[Keian]

Is there really never ever a reason to use Tri-bind for AoE damage? Like if you have already spread dots and there are no aether charges left to burn?

now that you mention it, it might be better than spamming ruin3. especially if there is more than 5 enemies present it's currently 220 mana cheaper plus you would be doing 30 potency more per target :/
it used to be really dumb and useless but seeing as the devs are more so... should probably give it a try. idk about the cast time, it's a little bit longer than ruin 3...

[Eclesis]

Can't speak for endgame but the Sustain change really bites for solo and leveling instances. I stopped playing at the end of ARR due to not having enough time and a poor computer, recently came back and the class feels amazingly awkward. If it's supposed be more pet and less DOT why was the main pet survivability tool removed? I picked Summoner originally because I'm a casual who mostly likes doing story/overworld/FATES etc. and a pet class was great for that - if I'd wanted an exciting life of trying to get spells off while getting smacked in the face I'd have gone with BLM. Potato-Egi melts way too fast vs FATE and overworld mobs, and some bosses' AoEs completely obliterate Garuda/Ifrit - Physic just doesn't cut it at 400 HP a pop and I'm pretty sure my job in instances is not "heal-spam my pet".

I'm liking the Heavensward story enough to finish it, but probably won't stick around after that - really wish I'd done the playthrough a couple of months ago.

[Vallhallix]

I think that is the problem why do we even have titan if tank it ourselves would be more efficient. what on earth is the point of having a tank pet when it can't tank. In fact what's the point of having pets if they constantly die. we we're somewhat of a pet class back in 3.x and previously. now if our pets constantly die and we can't summon bahamut (therefore loss in dps), yes we can resummon our pets (loss in mana, swift cast, and global cooldowns). overall a loss in dps and utility. thanks yoshi p </3

I agree, I vote remove Titan completely and give us Alpie's moonstone carbuncle, he lays down a small healing field. That would be awesome to have, and help keep us alive since physick sucks. It would also give us amazing support if it effected other players, one other at the very least.