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

They should have left it as it was in FFXI, Summons have never been really all that important in the storyline for the majority of Final Fantasy's besides 4,9 and X. Besides the final fantasy summons and summoners are a staple of the franchise, they are if not the most famous, among the top 2 most famous series of summon monsters in the RPG Genre. To take them away from their class and replace them with some random monsters is horrible.

I hope they actually change summoners around a bit and give them more of an important role in the party.
Such as

Titan=Paladin
Carbuncle=white mage
Ifrit,Shiva,Ramuh,Leviathan=black mage
Garuda=Red mage

So lets a party needs a role filled and they see a summoner is seeking they could ask the summoner if they would be willing to feel that role.

And i would love to see avatars like Odin and Alexander be more of a relic weapon.

Say Odin=Dark Knight with Apocalypse and Alexander=Paladin with Excalibur of course these two would be just as hard to get as a relic weapon.