Quote Originally Posted by MirronTulaxia View Post
I feel like this is shifting the burden from Yoshida/SE. Ultimately they're the ones who decided that a WoW Warlock was an acceptable implementation for a Summoner, and for anyone who cares about the series it really doesn't hold up.
Hindsight is 20/20 after all, and I don't think it's a healthy way to handle situations by turning anything into a blame game. It's so much easier for me to sit here, Summoner already having been designed as is, and say "well if you had just done this, it would be better" than it is for the development team to have created the Arcanist, Summoner, and Scholar from the ground up. I agree that it really should be designed differently from the beginning, but there's little that can be done about that now. I'm just glad they recognized what the summoner fantasy was and are trying to work toward it slowly but surely. It would be nice if they could be more transparent about where they eventually want to take it, and what these secret plans for egi-glamours are that are apparently in the works but cannot be talked about, but that's Japanese game developers for you.