Quote Originally Posted by LittleArrow View Post
I posted this in another thread, but I'd like to post this here too, since it's a defined thread towards summoner.

I hated the original FFXIV summoner. I feel awful for the players that loved it to lose their class. However, wanting summoner to be a wow warlock isn't the answer. Yoshida's vision for summoner being an actual summoner was 100% the correct move.

I ADORE the new Summoner! Summoner was always my favorite class in every final fantasy game, even the ones that didn't have it - I was so excited to get the new summon materia, guardian force, whatever they called it! Those cutscenes were one of my favorite things in all the final fantasy games, which is why I'm so confused we're getting neo-bahamut.

I 100% agree, I do NOT want a Bahamut mage. I want a SUMMONER. I want Shiva, Ramuh, Leviathan, Titania, Anima - I want all of the classic summons and I want new summons too! I know the devs are scared of button bloat, then make the Shiva / Ramuh / Leviathan replace Titan, Garuda, Ifrit during Phoenix phase. Give us a OGCD of Alexander for a party shield / buff. Give us more summons please!

[EDIT] I just wanted to add, I really like where Bahamut and Phoenix sit with the job. They're beautifully mirrored just like in game with how they fit in the lore; I'll stop there due to spoilers. There's nothing wrong with how it is now, but going forward - give me more summons!
Adding 3 summons after Phoenix is ​​just watering down the broth even more.

You say that the summons don't have to be skins, but currently the feeling is practically this: bahamut and phoenix are 2.48s GCD summons that work in the exact same way, let's add Titan which is the exact same thing and Garuda which works very similarly and so they work pretty much the same way. I would have worked a lot, much more to differentiate these flavors as they did with ifrit (the only real summon that was really successful in design).
I would have added more summons, not too many, just the right amount, but not sequentially but always used within the 1 minute window.
I would have done a job to redevelop the carbuncle and give it the right merits and the right importance.

I want my summons to be really different from each other, and in EW they did a terrible job of conveying identities to these summons. And in DT they just demonstrated how incompetent they are and that they are using this game only as a cash cow to milk as much as possible to get as much as possible in the shortest possible time, with the lowest possible effort, without actually giving them attention that it deserves.
There is no longer the love and attention that there was in past years.