Quote Originally Posted by Rin_Kuroi View Post
Also, I don't understand why these three new elemental summons make you feel like a summoner now when before you didn't. It's not like they are brand new pets. I used both ifrit and garuda day to day. Poor titan needed work. I didn't even use him while solo anymore. I feel like these new elemental summons are just low tier trash. Why aren't we summoning Alexander, Diablos or Knights of the Round? All of which we've seen in game.
Because now the job revolves around Summoning instead of poison. All of your damage is front loaded into the act of Summoning. Keeping your pet out, instant casting the pet, and never having to actually Summon it but out of combat or after death failed to deliver on job fantasy. As you say, Titan needed work, but that is because they couldn’t balance all three of the pets against eachother. It was very unclear where to use which Summon in the correct situation, and god forbid you use Titan. One was always the best to use regardless because of their nature as pets. Now, that they simply appear and cast, there is a reason to use all three, especially in situational context.

We could perhaps see more out of other Summons down the line, I feel that was alluded to by the Magus Sisters dungeon. Since the MSQ is over I hope they put more focus on secondary systems that never got to see the light of day, like new Summons. I was hoping the addition of Shiva, Ramuh, and Leviathan could deepens the job mechanics with Astral/Umbral attunement depending on which 3 you Summon. Here’s hoping for level 100.