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

So you're whole linkshell goes out gets the summon spends ages building it's power or whatever.

Then some random ls member soloing inferno tapers or something equally mundane is about die, panics and hits the summon button in an attempt to save his ass.

LOL

Originally Posted by Dzian

you're whole linkshell goes out gets the summon then some random member who almost died soloing inferno tapers or something equally mundane hits the summon button in an attempt to save his ass.

ROFL.. I can just see it now..

Um.. Hey, guys.. yeah.. you know... about that Ifrit summon... I had a little issue the other day.

To be honest, even after they supposedly "cleared up" the way the summoning system is going to work, the description is still extremely vague. I think I'll probably wait until they explain it in detail before I decide.

Originally Posted by DrJackal

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.

I feel the same way, which is why I like it that they are getting lesser primals as summons. Though I can definitely see it being cool where lets say the summoner job gets summons but the class gets manifestations letting them use skills like garuda's splitstream or something.

Originally Posted by DrJackal

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.

In FFXI It makes sense that a Summoner summoning an avatar would only be able to summon it as the same strength as the Summoner. Summoners are basically channeling the avatar into the world through them, hence the constant MP drain and the avatar being the same level as the Summoner.

It's a very poor idea. You will have large linkshells (mainly japaneese) over taing control of them and having seekign parties after use time. Or large groups of RMT's controlling them.

It will end up to controlled. It will also result in tension with linkshells, the person gettign last hit controls for the group, setting summon time.

Drops need to be very low in rate in this case, and No tradable/sellable as well if said HNM is defated with a summon.