GIVE CARBUNCLE SOMETHING TO DO/GIVE 90 SUMMONS GLAMOUR

[Chasingstars]

Carbuncle's Gift
replaces physick while carbuncle is out
400 Potency Cure
Scales off intelligence
Is off global cooldown (oGCD)

Carbuncle's Mercy
replaces Resurrection while carbuncle is out
Its resurrection, its instant cast, but its cooldown is 90 seconds

[Kulve]

Just put the radioactive rabbit to the axe and free SMN up from jank resitrctions. I myself have no qualms with it being gone. Had it around for 3 years of my XI life and it's still there.

[TankHunter678]

...thinking this all out, I kind of feel like the current Summoner design has boxed Carbuncle into a corner, where almost anything that it tries to do will have a knock-on effect that's annoying or disruptive to another part of the rotation.

The only possible solution I can see would be to finally go back and simply detach Summoner and Scholar from Arcanist entirely and design a new entirely Arcanist type job from the ground up to upgrade into from Arcanist.

Sure this has the added effect of making it so you cannot level 2 jobs at once anymore... but it would allow for Carbuncle to be designed around and be a focus of a job built around the tactical use of Arcane entities.

[LauraAdalena]

There’s one other problem with this. The current 90 summons are very large. And unlike Bahamut and Pheonix where you can generally turn your camera to avoid where they’re going to be for the duration even when small, at their smallest they are slightly larger than Bahamut and because of flashy and large animations as well as lots of effects surrounding themselves and having no option to turn them off or swap them to a creature with a smaller model means you’ll have your camera assaulted by effects that can make it very hard to do mechanics properly without turning all effects off completely, including your own.

[LauraAdalena]

Can I at the very least bargain for an option to change the gauge to the Carbuncle one level?

[Emitans]

Please give me back my carbies. Hitting level 90 is a DOWNGRADE.

[LauraAdalena]

Please give me back my carbies. Hitting level 90 is a DOWNGRADE.

I wish I could remove levels from my character

[Imora]

What he means, is that the Aethergauge (used before DWT is aquired), is available as a portrait accent.

Ooooh.

I see

[Flana]

The only possible solution I can see would be to finally go back and simply detach Summoner and Scholar from Arcanist entirely and design a new entirely Arcanist type job from the ground up to upgrade into from Arcanist.

Sure this has the added effect of making it so you cannot level 2 jobs at once anymore... but it would allow for Carbuncle to be designed around and be a focus of a job built around the tactical use of Arcane entities.

This won't solve anything because the root problem is STILL demi summoning. As long as that mechanic exists the pet will always feel like ass to use because it is constantly dying/off the field. If you want Carbuncle to do anything, you have to at least radically change the way demi-summons work.

[TankHunter678]

This won't solve anything because the root problem is STILL demi summoning. As long as that mechanic exists the pet will always feel like ass to use because it is constantly dying/off the field. If you want Carbuncle to do anything, you have to at least radically change the way demi-summons work.

In this case the demi-summoning for Summoner would simply be reworked where you are the one firing off the damage spell with the summon appearing to look like they are firing off the spell, eliminating carbuncle entirely and removing the pet from Summoner. Scholar likewise could be reworked, have the fairy float over the Scholar's shoulder as a buff animation that procs periodic healing on allies within range of the scholar thus also eliminating the pet system from Scholar. The fairy tether would either be a tether from the Scholar or a fairy buff animation would hover over the target player like a Paladin Beacon in WoW.

Arcanist would suffer the issue of needing a pet rework or simply getting rid of the pets entirely and changing them into pure carbuncle looking animations to perform the skills. Regardless that would be the route to enable Carbuncle lovers to be able to see their pretty carbuncles doing stuff while also fixing one of the regrets Yoshi-P has in the whole having multiple jobs tied to one base class issue that has been long standing.