Summoner Issues & Player Feedback

[Shikiseki]

I think as a foundation it served a good purpose until you realize how much potential the kit had but they focused on the wrong thing first (adding a demi in the form of bahamut2? but I digress)

If you realize that if you would have added just 1 additional gemshine summon into the mix, you could have already shaken the decisionmaking within the fixed 1 minute window: Do I fully use 3 gem summons? do I use all 4 of them but which one would you cut short? Or even have Shiva being one gemshine phase you cannot get out of until it's completely over due to the method of summoning being different - so many options! After that you add the 5th and 6th gem summon, each time expanding the possibilities even further

On top of that, you could introduce each gem summon to give an astral or umbral seal which will determine the demi summoning outcome like:
3 Astral nodes --> Bahamut
3 Umbral nodes --> Phoenix
2 A / 1 U nodes --> Odin
2 U / 1 A nodes --> Alexander

this idea alone would basically carry you as buildingblock until 10.0 as you can easily expand it which not only gives you even more summoning but also high decision making depening on the situation you're in as you suddenly not only have a variance in how many gemshine summons you summon but on what demi you ultimately want next in the line, all hopefully serving a different flavour while being identical in damage

[ShadowNyx3]

I think as a foundation it served a good purpose until you realize how much potential the kit had but they focused on the wrong thing first (adding a demi in the form of bahamut2? but I digress)

If you realize that if you would have added just 1 additional gemshine summon into the mix, you could have already shaken the decisionmaking within the fixed 1 minute window: Do I fully use 3 gem summons? do I use all 4 of them but which one would you cut short? Or even have Shiva being one gemshine phase you cannot get out of until it's completely over due to the method of summoning being different - so many options! After that you add the 5th and 6th gem summon, each time expanding the possibilities even further

On top of that, you could introduce each gem summon to give an astral or umbral seal which will determine the demi summoning outcome like:
3 Astral nodes --> Bahamut
3 Umbral nodes --> Phoenix
2 A / 1 U nodes --> Odin
2 U / 1 A nodes --> Alexander

this idea alone would basically carry you as buildingblock until 10.0 as you can easily expand it which not only gives you even more summoning but also high decision making depening on the situation you're in as you suddenly not only have a variance in how many gemshine summons you summon but on what demi you ultimately want next in the line, all hopefully serving a different flavour while being identical in damage

It's honestly so insulting to see this kind of potential they have sitting there for this job and they just refuse to put any effort into it. Like all they could be bothered to do for this entire new expansion is shove a new Bahamut animation into the exact same current rotation and one additional button press for the 2 minute window. Absolute laziness and lack of pride in their own game.


Your idea is spot on though and something I've thought of too since I first saw the EW rotation. Adding the three egis everyone's been begging for for 8 years allows us to use the lore-based Umbral/Astral designation to pop big Demi Summons which is just a vastly more engaging job mechanic than "chose first egi, choose second egi, repeat same buttons for one minute."