Smn Rework Suggestions After LL

[aveyond-dreams]

Yeah, this is really starting to sound like the mass hysteria that occurred after they changed Astro's cards, or the bizarre episode regarding male Viera height and them not being macho enough. The perception that summoner has no unifying theme and that it was ok for it to be a poison mage in this game is not connected to reality. I can't take anyone seriously who brings up Rydia's bio/poison spells and giving the impression that it was some critical part of her repertoire. It wasn't. Full stop. Any summon we've had in the mainline series that focused on side effects was almost always overshadowed and ignored in favor of summons that act normally and deal damage. FFIII's *evoker* was the borderline useless class that focused on status effects-FFIII's summoner specialized in traditional summon magic for large amounts of damage and FFV's follows the same model.

So no, the facts do not line up in favor of a dot warlock. This is objective reality.

Spoiler alert when they did the above changes we still have people who play (and like!) the new Astro such as myself and after so much nitpicking about height there is still a huge amount of people who want to play male Viera reapers once Endwalker drops. The affliction warlocks we are leaving behind in the dust may have been SMNs but they sure weren't summoners. I concede that it was unjust for SE to string them along with the false perception that summoners were supposed to be like this when history has proven otherwise, but now that the bubble has finally burst it's time to move on. 80/20 rule time. It is exponentially more beneficial for them to release a summoner with more straightforward gameplay and captivating spell effects than to continue catering to a minority that is stuck in a rut and unwilling to change for the better. So yes, more people will pick up and main 6.0’s summoner than 5.0’s affliction warlock and the game will be better off for it.