Quote Originally Posted by 5trange View Post
snip, but I like what you're saying
EW SMN seems to be the most obvious symptom of misguided design from the devs atm. They *seem* to completely blind themselves with the idea that everything must operate on a pristine 2 minute cycle. Frankly the easiest way to make SMN feel like you have substantial choice is to have more summons than are possible to summon in that cycle, with negligible potency differences between them, but preferable use-cases and varied durations. Not every summon needs to be a giant (not)Primal either, people love Carbuncles and already wish that the one SMN has now did more. Maybe it's just my opinion, but constant giant summons just cheapens them and I would prefer some more modest summons to choose from for a given filler period. The contrast between Egis and Demis before helped to emphasize the spectacle of Bahamut especially.

If the next caster, whether it's a separated arcanist or not, doesn't fill the void preEW SMN left behind then it had better be the greatest caster they've ever put together. Anything else would be extremely disappointing.