Revamp Summoner idea

[Shurrikhan]

Would that be to save hotbar space?

Technically they COULD have 20+ summons and one button for them all that opens a radial selector on press. It'd start casting and you mouse or joystick in the direction of what you want and hit again to confirm. Faint delay when Swiftcasting, but worth the n-1 buttons saved.

[IveraIvalice]

I think i'd have to see more precise numbers to determine how effective it would be tbh, like how much each spell charges its respective gauge, if there would be oGCD's that charged all the gauges some amount etc. etc. Don't get me wrong, I love the concept of actually having large, impactful summons.

Oh yeah definitely, and thats one thing i havent put too much thought into. the vision is more of the flow of combat rather then the technical details but that is very valid concerns

Technically they COULD have 20+ summons and one button for them all that opens a radial selector on press. It'd start casting and you mouse or joystick in the direction of what you want and hit again to confirm. Faint delay when Swiftcasting, but worth the n-1 buttons saved.

At first thought i wonder how that would work for gamepad users, thats only my first thought because i play solely with a controller but it would work well as a single hotbar button that brings up the wheel so it would be similar for gamepad users as well.
My main focus is just that the experience be around using any summon at any time (as long as you built up to it) be it through 7 hotbar buttons dedicated to each summon or a scroll wheel to condense it. Whatever lowers the clutter of actions i would be down for