summoner should get a do-over

[Shougun]

I'd feel really bad for those who love the current version of summoner , having a whole job just kind of yanked from underneath them... but I guess on a very selfish level I wouldn't be opposed to letting them take Machinist wack at it (they made, imo, Machinist very cool and fresh).

On that "probably shouldn't" (imo) but if I could have it greed.. I'd take/like a sort of FFXI (modernized) meets Yuna Dissida mix of both pets and one off super summons (both summon pets and big boom summons), completely removing anything non-primal related and especially taking away the poisons and ruins. Arcanist can be part of the quest requirements like conjurer for paladin but paying no mind to Arcanist's own skills when making Summoner. All the primal models not having to be the size of actual primals (that's probably a horrible idea lol, way too big) but none of them having the small scale or non-grandiose image of the egi. At least imo summoner throughout all the FFs has been many many things, healer, damage dealer, support, random items, super moves, early game hax and late game useless, but the one thing that has always (always) been summoner was that grandiose over the top image.. and that's the one thing FFXIV summoner lacked for quite a while.

Yet I think they've moved far and attempted to appease both parties, while staying fairly cost effective, and I think they've slowly gone in a direction that has the potential to appease multiple parties- just need to keep both adding and grinding.

So I must give SE credit they're adding that quite a bit for a while now (things I've thought were "that, exactly that- yes demi? oh yeah!"), which is why I have hope and think they don't need to rework it all. Also we've got that whole egi glamour system and more expansions, so even more feeling "it's going to be okay, I don't need to fret anymore- an issue here or there can be fixed!". Maybe optimistic but at least I feel they're listening and I honestly appreciate that, not saying what others should want/need to do but I want to give them time and see what they can do (while just quietly whispering "primal.." "primal..." whenever they go to add something to the job lol).

Not saying no.. just.. if it's not /awesome/ it'd be a really sad thing to happen to those who actually liked it. Personally I'm okay with the job's game mechanics- I don't dislike them, but I am not soul bound to them either. It'd be horrible thing to have your job completely redone and you feel like the rework is worse xD. Just my imo(s) .