Thread: Summoner Redesign 2.0 Shadowbringers Edition

Summoner is a Job, which I absolutely want to see getting fundamentally change, together with the Scholar. The Job is so incredibly messed up and flawed and due to this doen't play out how a Summoner should act in my opinion.


First something on the fundamental basic changes I'd do with the Summoners:

- Give them in Limsa Lominsa an own Starter Class, the Herold
- Herolds/ Summoners don"t use Books, they use Warhorns with that they are calling.
- Alisae is like her Brother an Arcanist, before she becomes Redmage, unlike him she simply doesn't like Carbuncles, say due to some personal reasons we might get to know somewhen.
- All Summoner Books get renamed and become Scholar Book Glamours

Following Skills get removed

- Bio/ Bioga
- Miasma/ Miasga
-Physick
- Ressurection
- Fester
- Energy Drain
- Bane
- Energy Siphon
- Painflare
- Tri-disaster
- completly Bahamut and Phoenix get redesigned
- Outburst
- All pointless Summon Controll Skill, cause they can't be targeted anymore, only Summon and Sacrifice/Remove needed.

The Job basically should get the whole Machinist treatment, because 50% of this Job's skills are - sorry to say that - just unfitting garbage that has NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING A SUMMONER.

As you will realize, removing those skills above will mean naturally, that the Summoner will lose Ether as Sub Mechanic. It will become a Scholar only-mechanic. Summoners will use a new Mechanic instead - Sacrifices, with Familiars as Ressource.
Now able to summon up to 3 independant Familiars and based how many you sacrifice, allows you to do something different

1 Sacrifice > Allows you to ressurrect a fallen Ally, but the sacrificed Egi (Avatar) can't be resummoned for 2 Minutes.
2 Sacrifices > Grants a combined Group Buff based on which Familiars have been sacrificed
- Ifrit grants Damage Boost
- Garuda grants Critical Boost
- Titan grants Defense Boost
- Leviathan grants Health Regen over time
- Ramuh grants Skill/Spell Recharge Speed Boost
- Shiva grants Mana Regen over time
- Odin grants Movement Boost
- Bismarck grants Magic Defense Boost
- Ravana grants Magic Damage Boost

Only the first thee are learned via Main Story, the others will be learned via new optional Summoner Side Quests retroactively added.

3 Sacrifices > Summon a Guardian Force out of 3 Options
- Bahamut
- Alexander
- Phoenix