Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Not quite sure what you mean by "unalloyed"?

As I said, FFXIV's SMN feels like a hybrid of Rydia from FF4 and Clive from FF16.

Also, your picture is pretty misleading. Not only does it leave out a huge part of 5.X (and earlier) SMN (the DoTs; not to mention Egi-Assaults and Further Ruins), it ignores that Phoenix and Bahamut are also in the 6.X rotation. I get it's supposed to be a meme, but it's an example of what I'm saying.
Unalloyed as in not a hybrid. Rydia isn’t a summoner alone, but has black magic too, fairly sure ffxi jobs all take a secondary job, other summoners are also white mages, I think ffv was the one where you also have a mix of your choice, similar to ffta/2. It’s been a while since 1990,

That would be because it’s the phases. You’re pressing 3 until it’s ctrl 3 time repeatedly. I think it probably should be a picture of gem shine into ruin 3 but I couldn’t find a better one at short notice. They do not feel nearly as distinct as they did, whether or not this is a 2 minute issue isn’t really relevant, we can only compare what is there. For the record I don’t think it helps, and should they change it they’ll have a hell of a time changing it. It also suffers from the riveting gameplay of casting ruin 3 lots while waiting on the phoenix buff because high concept 2 always comes along at the same time and there’s no flexibility in how you play it and prematurely bahamuting would be a hilarious dps loss comparatively. Builder spender that operates from debt sounds a lot more interesting than the reality.

Honestly if they added current summoner as evoker I’d still be pretty annoyed about it. Even if there’s a collection of rabbits who literally just taught the beastmen how to summon properly and learning a job from them would have been a good way to expand on the world building and integrate it into the story. There’s just isn’t enough to it nor anything to justify its rigidity.