Quote Originally Posted by SweetPete View Post
I agree with the above. I’m sure we will get Shiva, Ramuh and Leviathan in 7.0 to come after Phoenix. I would have loved to have that now but I think they just ran outta time on the job. So for now it’s half baked. Which sucks btw.

I think we also need some ogcd summons as well. We have none. Fester and Painflare need to go tbh. They do not fit in this rework at all. That will open up spots for at least two ogcd summons. Maybe Ravana and Bismarck or the warring triad.
Pets are the jank of SMN and is still prominent. Having Carbuncle on the field ust to do Radiant Aegis is jank when you summon any of the Arcanums or Demi's because now it's locked for x seconds. Imagine having more abilities that are Summons, but you can't use them when you want to because the GCD Summons are taking up time, and then Demi's prevent you from using them for a whole 15 seconds. The only way this could even work, is if SMN rolled up on BLU, beat it, stuff it in a bag, and toss it in the sea to take the primal abilities it has.

Quote Originally Posted by Marxam View Post
Im pretty sure they are just going to go the BLM route and divide the 6 summons between Umbral and Astral elements (3 each respectively). It would keep the same gameplay design and allow for more freedom i.e. you can choose which form to start in.

Example:

Bahamut (Umbral) - Shiva, Titan, Leviathan
Phoenix (Astral) - Ifrit, Ramuh, Garuda.

Plays like EW SMN but you can choose to go into either Bahamut or Phoenix at the start of the battle and it simply flips to the other once you do the full rotation. Then once you complete both trances you then unlock Judgment Trance which lets you summon Alexander. However I would like to see them have fun with SMN. Like a random chance to summon fat chocobo or even king mog with only visual differences but otherwise no change to potency or gameplay.
The real problem with this is that it validates that the current build of SMN is not complete and to do this would require yet another rework to fix and work. Even then, this would need to be a gradual introduction of mechanical change and not something that is just thrown at the players face at 91. Just having to change how Demi's are summoned would require a rework since they're all on the same button that makes it impossible to have any choice in the matter. Doesn't mean I don't agree.