Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
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They could give us all the summons in the world and it would still be terrible for a variety of reasons. Particularly that the primals are too short for any meaningful unique gameplay while being too long to have a non-primal phase. This could be a byproduct of the equally asinine decision to have everything on a 2 minute cycle, but given these changes were made simultaneously that's entirely on them. If they did have a 3 demi rotation and extended time between demis from one minute to two, it could lead to somewhere interesting, but it could also be needlessly punishing in both normal content and unexpectedly short fights. Summoner is currently fundamentally broken which is especially impressive given how little there is there.


1) What is FFXIV as we know it but an admission of a horrible mistake?

2) Caster potencies remained largely unchanged if that's what you're referring to? Else you're saying that the issue is not the issue.

3) see 2)

4) This doesn't seem to be a point with any substance.

5) Hopefully they'd have made something that has gameplay, specifically gameplay in keeping with the summoner we've had for the last decade so the change wouldn't be as bad.

6) If they'd done it properly then it wouldn't be necessary.
New summoner does scarcely better than mch damage, old summoner was an actual caster and did appropriate damage for such a role, ie upper half of the dps.