Can Summoners Get Some Of These Combat Changes?

[loreleidiangelo]

To be honest, I think DoTs and Aetherflow "stacks" fit a combat strategist theme like SCH's more than they fit a raw primal energy channeler theme like SMN's. Aiding the wounded with Lily while crippling foes with poisons seems exactly like something a medic tactician of Nym would do, IMO. Bobble-head bits of colored aether about the size of an arm and Ruin spam is frankly borderline insulting to the practitioners of an ancient and controversial art once used in the Allagan frickin' Empire.

[kikix12]

It doesn't matter. A Scholar is a healer, an Arcanist is a DPS. That alone is absurd combination and I don't know who even though it could work out when they made Arcanist progress into either a Summoner or a Scholar.

There is nothing stopping them from changing the DoT-based Arcanist into whatever sort of pet user, or force user, they want once they separate it from the Summoner. It's still going to be a lot less work than remaking Arcanist to become a healer class. And DPS class should not ever turn into a healer class...period. Not in a game where hybrids are not allowed due to fixed party setups in standard content.