Thread: What are your thoughts on 2.0's summoning system?

Originally Posted by Mijin

I invite you to read the original post where there is no mention whatsoever of the summoner class.

The post I was quoting from Theplatter mentioned the job, but that's mostly semantics seeing as we're talking about a system here. Summoner as a job has been mentioned before, albeit usually in the larger scope of the system they are conceptualizing. I'm also not only referring to you specifically, there are others who talk about this and reference the job itself, some of them in this thread as well. It's the general attitude amongst those who are concerned about summoning and summoner as a whole that I'm speaking towards, and I'm cautioning against "knowing" that the system will be a pain in the ass until it's proven to be a pain in the ass (probably in the beta) and at which point we can influence it to change.

Horrible idea, there is not one FF where summoning was hard to Obtain. This notion that they have been cheapened must come from XIII where the summons where godammed transformers and silly stuff like that <.<

Also Garuda is not a goddammed summon, it never was, replace it with alexander or quetzacol and where is shiva ?

It's be cool if they somehow combined Beastmaster and Summoner. Here is what I mean: I think, outside of primals, it'd be cool if you could "tame the soul" or "obtain the soul" of enemies you kill (like FF13) that way everybody could customize to their play style and their likes. Yes I know everyone would eventually have the same creatures to summon but not everyone would have the same ones out

Originally Posted by XxOstiaxX

Horrible idea, there is not one FF where summoning was hard to Obtain. This notion that they have been cheapened must come from XIII where the summons where godammed transformers and silly stuff like that <.<

Also Garuda is not a goddammed summon, it never was, replace it with alexander or quetzacol and where is shiva ?

Lol until you just pointed it out there, I don't think I've ever noticed before that the first FF game where Garuda was used as a summon was XI.

Originally Posted by Mijin

I hope one on the community reps forwards this thread over to the devs. Considering the response to this seems to be overwhelmingly negative, they may want to rethink their position on this.

I really do hope so. Considering summoner is a extremely popular class that goes back several years in the series, I feel it's important they get it down just as right as White Mage and Black Mage.

i do feel it cheapen their value to have personal avatar, for example a goat defeating ifrit? lol it looked silly in FFXI and would be here too.
personally i feel summoner class need a fresh approach , why not make the avatar lend their power to the summoner and channel their power through him/her? the summoner get new look and fight physically instead of standing in the back.