Summoner: An action or a dot?

[Kazrah]

I know there is holy element, but I feel that Alexander is more tied to the element of time in FFXIV, and I don't know how that would work on the level of the job system. Even AST's usage of time is boring in my opinion.

That was mostly a "for example" thing, just naming Alexander off the top of my head for it when it could easily be any major elder primal we've seen and have a similar set of conversion effects tacked on like with Demi-Phoenix. Could be a Demi-Alexander, a Demi-Shinryu, maybe even a Demi-Eden. All it needs is the appropriate Trance and Enkindle abilities along with some spell changes and BAM, new demi primal for the next expansion.

As for Astrologian's time usage, it's either been removed (speed cards, Time Dilation) or reworked out (Celestial Opposition no longer a stun/buff extender), which I do find curious. Reminds me of a recent interview with Yoshi-P that was brought up in another forum thread about reading up on Heavensward stuff for later.

Yes I have to agree with you. They can't just slap another demi to the already tiring and overly taxing Summoner rotation without trimming something else like the egis. At the same time I don't think they can get away with not adding something new; leaving us with Bahamut and Phoenix only and no new summon in 6.0 would really feel off, so they definitely will have to go through a Machinist style overhaul with Summoner. If it worked for Machinist and they didn't care about the backlash from those that liked the original Machinist then they shouldn't worry about the egi fans either, in my opinion. They should overhaul the job to fit within the other jobs in the game. Summoner as it stands is not clean like BLM, DNC, and even RDM are, it needs changes, in my opinion.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure the tens of 4.x Machinist fans out there didn't mind the 5.0 overhaul either, and I think they were more comfortable with doing it to Machinist because it was the least played job among all players. Summoner will be tricky because of the bigger fanbase the job has, but I think it's more a case of necessity rather than popularity. I'd also argue that it'd allow for a simpler gateway to separate Summoner and Scholar too, but that's more a "wait and see" thing.