Thread: Summoner 7.0 Wishlist

Reintroduce casts again.

Add Resources to manage. (eg: Ruin IV stack)

Make rotation less Gemshine spam. Therefore introducing alternative skills or escamotage to avoid its compulsive use.

Make the carbuncle free from demi-summons. (effectively solving the real problem of the carbuncle: ghosting)

Make the carbuncle manageable again from its positioning to its abilities.

Make Bahamut and Phoenix different from each other (As it was in shB. The feeling of the two summons was really different, now they are the same story colored differently).

Make Titan and Garuda different from each other: the cast times, speed and gameplay.

Make the rotation less rigid, especially have a meaningful way to delay the burst phases.

Make the fact that the Aethercharge remains even if the elemental disappears useful. (I believe it has potential, but is currently untapped due to the inherent nature of the extremely rigid rotation that the smn has.)

Add a new elemental summon, perhaps one that justifies ifrit's mini melee combo. Therefore also giving him melee abilities that it can use in combos with ifrit (if the player wants).

Make the progression of the smn less stale, giving it a real sense of progression and not just changing the colors and potency of gemshine. or at least remove it from level 1 classes.

Remove Painflare and Energy siphon and then balance Energy drain and Fester. They are redundant skills (especially for an ogcd with 60s cd).

Add different cds (aka add also 15/30s cds, 60s only its too boring).

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if the smn goes back to being a caster (therefore not be the privileged cousin of the rdm):

Make Physick scaled to INT.

Add an additional serious TP.

Add an aoe shield.

Move EF to an unlockable ogcd after phoenix

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Pls, I don't need more spectacular vfx that turns into Gemshine spam, I need the entire job to be juicier.

I love 6.0 Summoner a lot. I loathed DoT Summoner. I wouldn't want to lose Resurrection (or Verraise on RDM). They've saved me restarting too many boss fights by being able to raise my healer. I don't play with any intention of ever using it. If the healer dies they'll have to wait however long is necessary for my next Swiftcast, but it's there if we need it.

All I want for 7.0 is for Ifrit/Titan/Garuda to be replaced by Leviathan/Ramuh/Shiva after summoning Phoenix. They don't have Egis so they can go straight to full-sized at 93 and get their Astral Flows at 96.

I'm not sure what I'd add at 100. Demi-Diabolos would be pretty cool but I don't think a third phase is actually all that elegant. I think an ability to skip or repeat a phase might be useful. Double up on Bahamut for extra burst damage or double up on Phoenix for better dps, assuming Levi/Ramuh/Shiva offer higher damage than the base 3, or get an extra Enkindle if you're hurting.

Regarding Carbuncle, I actually don't want him doing anything independent. I don't trust an AI pet to be targeting the right mob at any given point. This is the inherent problem with pet classes. Take for instance the last boss in The Burn. If Carbuncle attacks the Mist Dragon in the mist phase before you're able to swap to the dragon heads, you're boned. And that's absolutely going to happen every time. You cannot trust AI. I expect this was the same conclusion the devs came to.

I do think that before level 70, when you actually summon Bahamut, Carbuncle should be the source of the additional damage provided to both Ruin and Outburst while Aethercharge or Dreadwyrm Trance is active. I also think he should get more than just Radiant Aegis. He should cast Ruin IV, which should probably be called something else anyway. Maybe he could be the solution to the Physick problem by changing Physick into some kind of Carbuncle Cure. However I think SMN with any kind of functional cure might be a bit too OP.

-Delete Physick.
-Delete energy drain/siphon
-Normal rez restricted.

Split bahamut and pheonix summon like the pvp system.
(bahamut 1.5s cast/2.5s gcd, add megaflare to it)
(Phéonix instant cast/1.5s, medium damage,
give 1 stack of free instant rez + 10% hp shield for the whole team).

-"Separate carbuncles from the summoning system and let them accumulate ether for a new resource management approach.
Create a 2 long-range spell 2.5s gcd (similar to the old egi assault) with two charges, first generating one Ruin IV stack per use. second generate 1 stack per use for painflare/fester.
Additionally, introduce a spell that absorbs ether from elemental summons to convert it into Carbuncle Trance after 3 elemental ether,
allowing the use of a 20s duration reflect damage effect and 15s personnal 5% damage boost. After two trance carbuncle, unlock ''OGCD summon demi-carbuncle and deal instant damage''

-Reduce the Global Cooldown for summoning Garuda, Titan, and Ifrit from 2.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
-add 1.5s cast time to titan 2.5s recast for allow the use of the ogcd.
-Garuda: Slipstream instant cast.
-Ifrit Ruby rite 2.8s cast-> 2.5s
Crimson cyclone no changement
Crimson strike 5 yalms-> 25 yalms.

Add Shiva, Ramuh, Leviathan.

"Implement an elemental combo system among the different summons and allow the choice of 3 summons, with each Demi-Phoenix and Demi-Bahamut summon resetting the previously used summons."
and add effect for these combo.
Exemple Use ifrit after garuda:
Using Ifrit after Garuda or the opposite applies a damage-over-time effect to the target for 10 seconds.

example of possible effect, personal damage increased by 5%, next spell instant cast, gives 1 stack of ether,
reduces casting speed by 25%,etc,etc,...

For this to be possible, it would be necessary to add 3 spell emplacement for the shiva,leviathan,ifrit.
We could replace Physick, which serves no purpose, with a demi-ogcd and instant summon after 120s, such as Carbuncle/Odin/Alexander, etc.
In total, it would likely require adding 5 spell emplacement.