Smn Rework Suggestions After LL

[Roda]

So...
Distracting from the argument over who deserves to be happy with the game....

Is it just me, or does the flow from phase to phase feel... off? Like the progression is backwards?

Big ELDER PRIMAL Bahamut is just a cooldown that we use and go through that phase to unlock the 3 smaller semidemis? And those 3 semidemis have the most variance in how they influence our gameplay feel? (Yes I AM pushing semidemis) And in the same vein, phoenix is a slightly different bahamut now (just trade a ogcd nuke for an ogcd heal, and add on a passive, instead of totally different casting behaviors), just to start the cycle over again. I guess they gave us the big cool thing first to line up with openers? But idk, I have the same problem with the rotation now. It's weird that we just have to wait for bahamut and phoenix to show up to grant us access to the other summons, instead of having those other summon mechanics support, or feed into, those big showstopping demi summon phases.

And like aetherflow.. What are you even here for anymore?
(You too ruin IV, you are like 100% here because they wanted us to weave into something but they lined up our rotation so that we didn't have an instant cast handy aren't you?)

Like I know it's WAAAAAAAY too late to change anything, so i'm just indulging in a bit of fantasy here, but I'd appreciate it, thematically, if the flow looked less like this



And more like this

I'm sure there could be buff timers and "persists through incapacitation" effects, to ease the harshness that early-sb resource cohesion would cause.