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

Originally Posted by Ksenia

I figured out the general idea of what you were saying.

An Ifrit Materia or Esper could be used to summon the essence or the effect of Ifrit but to summon him it is to be expected that you can only do it once at any given time. It gives primal's a life of their own when they are treated as autonomous beings and not elements.

The Summoner should really be called a Channeler as they channel Ifrit like power rather than summon.

I suppose your last sentance is really the question, if we define it like that then FF11, from what i understand, would be a Channeler. So going by those definitions, do we prefer a Channeler or a Summoner for FF14?

Personally, i'd rather have a Summoner, working in the bounds of what Yoshi-P has planned as far as we know, would cost us the big name summons. I'm fine with that.

Originally Posted by Viritess

I suppose your last sentance is really the question, if we define it like that then FF11, from what i understand, would be a Channeler. So going by those definitions, do we prefer a Channeler or a Summoner for FF14?

Personally, i'd rather have a Summoner, working in the bounds of what Yoshi-P has planned as far as we know, would cost us the big name summons. I'm fine with that.

How about Channeler (Class) Summoner (Job). Channeler can use the mini-powers of the aeons and such as well as using elementals while Summoner can actually summon the aeons for the big godly burst of destruction as well as being able to summon slightly stronger versions of the elementals? I think that would be awesome.

Originally Posted by Dubont

How about Channeler (Class) Summoner (Job). Channeler can use the mini-powers of the aeons and such as well as using elementals while Summoner can actually summon the aeons for the big godly burst of destruction as well as being able to summon slightly stronger versions of the elementals? I think that would be awesome.

Not a bad idea really. Gives ya some options atleast. Though i'm personally not a fan of having pet versions of Ifrit and such, atleast the discussion is going in a creative direction ^^

Originally Posted by Viritess

Not a bad idea really. Gives ya some options atleast. Though i'm personally not a fan of having pet versions of Ifrit and such, atleast the discussion is going in a creative direction ^^

Totally. I wasn't thinking of a pet version though. I was thinking more along the lines of what Yoshi is thinking with the whole summon them once for a big deal then they're gone until you get them again lol. As for the mini-powers, the channeler could use a materia like ability to use a lower power verison of the aeon's ability.