Shadowbringer: Summoner Changes Discussion

[Myon88]

Yeah for a start, firebird trance and summon phoenix really should have been different buttons, like the bahamut portion of the rotation is. That way, even though you're still pressured to hit firebird trance on cooldown, you only risk wasting the trance portion and not the actual summon, which you can now freely summon at any other point you choose without impacting the rhythm of the rotation (which is dwt/fbt's cooldown).

Of course, it's still a problem having to potentially waste a trance if it coincides with downtime during a fight, it's just not as bad as it is now where you waste both. This problem doesn't exist in the Stormblood aetherflow system for the reasons I outlined above. I would honestly recommend just reverting that portion of the kit to the way it works in Stormblood, but I don't realistically see a backtrack of that level happening. It might just be one of the major pain points summoner will face this expansion.

Aetherflow works just fine, the main issue it produced was long prep times before pulls if you wanted an optimal start to combat. With shadowbringers they have changed SCH's aetherflow to not work outside of combat, so that already exists as a solution to stop the long prep times before pulls, no need to change summoner from being gated by aetherflow to dreadwyrm trance instead.