Summoner 7.0 Wishlist

[Zofian]

Overhaul is needed.

I like the use of gemstones on the bar, keep that but include extra gems/egi assault skills for the Leviathan/Ramuh and maybe Bismarck too etc.

They should make new animations so that the Ruin 1/2/3 and Outburst/Brilliance attacks have magic effects that shoot out of your characters hand and not the book, which should be held in the opposite hand and away from the visual attack effect. The book needs to become somewhat the equivalent of the red mage's crystal focus, not a weapon itself. Ruin IV's and Painflaire's effects are fine though- it's about balance and having a spectrum of effects.

The auto attack should become a ranged zoosh of some kind- and make it a strong green seeing as the game doesn't have anything like that yet.

Summoner could use a teleport of some kind too. Make it work like Ninja's Shukuchis so you can choose how far to teleport. Reaper has a floating portal, ninja goes whoosh, BLM goes blerrr, Dragoon goes Fushhh with it's backflip, so summoner could bloop down into the ground and pop up at the chosen spot or something, or something similar to a teleport effect seen in the level 87 dungeon.

Make egi use tactical again and bring back the egi assault skills (including Titans shield exactly as it was). OR perhaps overhaul all the existing egis skills and they way they work, allowing you to also set and choose which egi is for what attack/strength, so someone can use an all-ifrit setup if they wanted to- the damage would be the same (this would require removing gem/aspects from attack names but is doable).

[Renathras]

- Physic scale with INT. It's stupid this hasn't happened yet. In a game with Vercure, Physic being as 3/4ths as effective as WHM Cure 1 isn't going to be OP.
- Carbuncle have a SCH Ruin 2 to cast for chip damage (something that doesn't have to deal with animation lock or etc but is doing SOMETHING), could be coded as a GCD or an oGCD with a 3 sec CD, either way achieves the same result.
- Phoenix to generate Leviathan, Ramuh, and Shiva Primals instead. I don't even mind them having the same as Ifrit, Titan, and Garuda, just the animations and "complete set" would be cool.
- Possibly remove the Aetherflow stuff. It's vestigial and just nonsensical at this point. Make change Fester's name to something more SMN-y and give it and Painflare 2 charges with a 30 sec CD. Have Ruin IV generate from using Demis. Done.
- Do NOT, under any circumstances, remove Resurrection.

I think that's it, honestly. SMN is almost perfect as it is right now.

EDIT: Oh, one more thing:

- Give lower levels of Astral Flow so that we have that earlier. For EW it was "the new thing", but it would honestly be cool to have that by level 50 at the latest. It feels weird to not have, for example, the Titan 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2 punch. Just let us have a slightly more complete version of our rotation for leveling content. 50 at the latest since that's what a crap ton of ques land you in (MSQ, Alliance Raid, Normal Raid, 50/60/etc, and a lot of dungeons and raids and most Trials.)

[Raikai]

You know what would be interesting? In the advent of the 3 other gemstones, at level 100, we'd get an action that unlocked a special board (out of combat) circular interface where you could change the placement of each gemstone and Demi. Unprecedent feature, and highly unlikely, but it would add some nice interactions in that you have specific setups for different fights.

More realistically, if there's one old thing that I really wish reworked is the aetherflow system of SMN, because it just feels like some awkward remnant of the old SMN that works... but feels out of place (Festering... what exactly, since there's no dots anymore?).

I think I'd go along with any idea, as long as it could be more cohese with the rest of the kit.

[Supersnow845]

You know what would be interesting? In the advent of the 3 other gemstones, at level 100, we'd get an action that unlocked a special board (out of combat) circular interface where you could change the placement of each gemstone and Demi. Unprecedent feature, and highly unlikely, but it would add some nice interactions in that you have specific setups for different fights.

More realistically, if there's one old thing that I really wish reworked is the aetherflow system of SMN, because it just feels like some awkward remnant of the old SMN that works... but feels out of place (Festering... what exactly, since there's no dots anymore?).

I think I'd go along with any idea, as long as it could be more cohese with the rest of the kit.

You just described the eureka magia wheel

[Rychu]

Any reason Slipstream needs to have a cast time? (I might just be picky)

As a Red Mage, I will jump ass first into the aetherial sea and die if Summoner becomes even more mobile.

[Raikai]

You just described the eureka magia wheel

Must be really reductive to say that I described the Magia Board lol. Maybe the shape and the fact that it has elements?

[Silverquick]

I really don't expect them to do anything more with SMN at this point other than to add new powers for the next level cap. It's honestly pretty well balanced for what it really is and does. I personally would probably like a little more complexity but that comes from having run the old SMN from it's 1st edition which was much more complicated than even the Stormblood version. Not necessarily because the current version sucks or anything. It really is a Final Fantasy SMN with a clear Identity now, that is right on the mark.

But there is one thing I might want, that would be to make the actual Summons more transparent during the Summon Portion. I personally think they are absolutely cool... but they do block the view for everyone else in Dungeons and Raids. So you kinda have to keep your distance so as not to hose up everyone else. They kinda blot out the sun at times. Small only works for you not everyone else. They're only there for a short time, but with as fast paced as some of the mechanics are getting they can get in the way.

[Raikai]

But there is one thing I might want, that would be to make the actual Summons more transparent during the Summon Portion. I personally think they are absolutely cool... but they do block the view for everyone else in Dungeons and Raids. So you kinda have to keep your distance so as not to hose up everyone else. They kinda blot out the sun at times. Small only works for you not everyone else. They're only there for a short time, but with as fast paced as some of the mechanics are getting they can get in the way.

One thing that helps with this is changing the summon size yourself (even if you're not the SMN), since it's client based. But there's another thing that would help this immensely and is glamouring them into their pre-90 iterations (egis or carbuncles) - I wish they would offer this possibility with the /petglamour command.

[Mecia]

Revert to Stormblood with pet ghosting fixes.

[Flana]

Revert to Stormblood with pet ghosting fixes.

Literally impossible. Demisummoning is the root cause of all ghosting problems. No iteration of Summoner will ever exist without ghosting problems (including EW) without first scraping the demi mechanic.