Quote Originally Posted by faiarrow View Post
"But the lore says we reached our aetherwell cap after Garuda thus can't imbue further summon essences" is the weakest excuse in a game that has, constantly, retconned major plot points before given its breaking this rule already with Solar Bahamut existing.
And really they’ve already started laying the foundations… Eden, the fact that we’ve got an extra shard of our soul from Ardbert, the way summoning was explained during EW with the difference between how primals were summoned under Ascian influence as opposed to Ancient creation magic… I mean, a large chunk of the player base wants Levi-Shiva-Ramuh, and at this point, it would be so easy to say old lore is old, and we’re powerful enough to handle it now, and we have more knowledge of what summoning actually is and how it works. I doubt I’d come here and see people complaining “but lore!” if they finally gave us our other 3 gems! Ok there’s always a few, but most of the posts I’m seeing here and elsewhere, this is the most wanted item on the list.

Add to that, it would take up no extra hot bar space, as our gems could go to Levi-Shiva-Ramuh buttons just like they do for Garuda-Titan-Ifrit… and they could continue that further ahead with other triads of summons if they wanted.

I do share Little Arrow’s optimism though… SMN was the second job I picked up and though there are some things I miss about old SMN (DOT spread was fun lol), I like the format it’s in now a lot better. They’ve built a good foundation for future growth, but now they need to start doing it! So I share everyone’s disappointment in having to wait another few years to get what I thought would be the next logical step. Still love the job, I just want more! lol