Summoner/Make Carbuncle useful again

[vetch]

Decouple the summons from the pet system entirely. It sucks trying to target a particular mob for AoE and having to wait for Carbuncle to transform and/or meander over there at low levels, meanwhile your target gets killed or the tank has re-positioned the pack and you only hit 1 target.

Then make Carbuncle 'useful' by having him do a party-wide spell that deals thorns damage when the boss uses a magic raidwide, similar to the Reflect skill he has in every other Final Fantasy. The Summon Carbuncle button can remain a pet for people who want their companion squirrel.

[remiff]

Decouple the summons from the pet system entirely. It sucks trying to target a particular mob for AoE and having to wait for Carbuncle to transform and/or meander over there at low levels, meanwhile your target gets killed or the tank has re-positioned the pack and you only hit 1 target.

Then make Carbuncle 'useful' by having him do a party-wide spell that deals thorns damage when the boss uses a magic raidwide, similar to the Reflect skill he has in every other Final Fantasy. The Summon Carbuncle button can remain a pet for people who want their companion squirrel.

this spell existed during the stormblood period, and was so powerful that they completely removed it. Radiant shield.
Delivers an attack with a potency of 50 every time damage is suffered.
Duration: 20s
Additional Effect: Increases target's physical damage taken by 2%
Duration: 4s
Recast: 60s
radius 15 yalms (on every party members)
https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Radiant_Shield

[vetch]

Fascinating.

They do love to give us worse versions of abilities that they took away before, so if you ditch the phys vuln and reduce the duration to only fit one raidwide it sounds like a perfect candidate.