Shadowbringer: Summoner Changes Discussion

[Nyoraii]

If you're talking about your ideal for SMN, mine is this:

Elemental Trance

• Can acess spells from elemental primals: Ifrit, Garuda, Titan, Leviathan, Ramuh, Shiva
• When you use a spell, the summon appear like in the official art, uses the skill and goes away, just an animation
• Could have single target fire burst, a wind AoE, a water AoE, earth buffs, ice debuffs
• Each spell you cast fills a summoning bar

Summon Demi-Primal 1

• Requires a full summoning bar and Elemental Trance
• Needs a target, summons a random primal to attack a target
• Before leaving (or if commanded) it casts its finisher: Hellfire, Whisperwind, Gaia's Wrath, Tsunami, Judgment Bolt, Diamond Dust
• After you summon a demi-primal, you gain one Aether

Primal Trance

• Requires 2 Aether to be casted
• Can acess spells from stronger primals: Bahamut, Phoenix, Alexander, Odin
• Fills the summoning bar with primal energy

Summon Demi-primal 2

• Requires a full summoning bar and Primal Trance
• Needs a target, summons a random primal to attack a target
• Before leaving (or if commanded) it casts its finisher: Akh Morn, Revelation, Divine Judgment, Zantetsuken

THIS would be the ideal Summoner, every spell comes from Summons, a million times better than current iteration. No relying on dots that have nothing to do with what a Summoner should be. Also Elemental Trance could be the default state of a Summoner, no need for a stance for that. Could reduce the number of Summons if this proved to be too much work to animate and etc.