Some random idea about the SMN core gameplay...

[LastDream]

Hello boards. I just started recently to rush my Summoner to level 70 and my best friend is a main Summoner so we have lots of talk around the job daily especially since the controversy of 4.0 etc...


Today i just had a really stupid thought that was probably suggested lots of times and denied lots of times also but i really felt like sharing it to see and understand the community's thoughts about it.


Some people wish and believe that the SMN and SCH get separated one day for a better balance of the two jobs (we saw what happened to Bane) and i'm one of the (few?) people that agree with it. So my thought process here is, if SMN ever came to divorce the SCH, what would happen to it?

The gameplay could stay "mostly" the same but i strongly believe the current dps skills such as "Bio" or "Miasma" or "Bane" should be removed and left only on the SCH (which makes more sense since the job works around war medecine). Replace them with elemental skills using the primals (not the egis). Temporary "summon" a primal to attack for him, like just half the primal spawning above the SMN for an attack and whoosh (again, similar to DWT animation).

Exemple : No bane anymore? Use Ifrit to inflict a fire dot, use Garuda to spread the dot with her winds (and i'm not talking about the egis here, i'm talking about real abilities from you). You could still keep the egis perhaps, but that way lore wise the SMN would actually USE the primals as he should be.


The original artwork of the SMN made me think about this a lot because it really looks like the Egi is coming/spreading out of the SMN.


Anyway, that was just a random thought, i'm just hyped about it but still like the current SMN (when it will be fixed for the most parts) and just wanted to chit chat a bit, cheers.