Quote Originally Posted by Carighan View Post
It's sooooo close. It just needs:

* Alternative sets of minor summons that fill the same role but work different mechanically, and you get random draws so you cannot rely on your mechanics for the next minute and need to actually be flexible.
* Minor summons being different other than "fully mobile" vs "casted". Which isn't difficult either, plus those two are good categories, so make it one button always casted, but top DPS, one button 100% mobile, but medium DPS, one button support-y, but low DPS. You need to use all 3 anyways so it's not like this isn't easy to work into a balanced DPS setup.

The underlying core is brilliant, props to whichever dev cooked that up. The implementing devs just did ~nothing with that core, which is super annoying.
My take on that is that they'd need the 3 extra new summon, Shiva Ramuh and Leviathan.

In order to summon the 2min burst, so currently Sol Bahamut, all 6 must be summoned
Each summon has a degree of movement freedom. For instance, Titan has currently perfect freedom, garuda is in between (not counting SC) and Ifrit has the highest restriction.

If you'd do

Titan : 100% instant + ogcd weaving
Shiva : Melee combo (instant) + 1 1.5s cast finisher
Garuda : 5 instants + 1 bigger cast
Leviathan : Slower and Slower cast + Utility teleport (dash) ogcd for quick
Ifrit : 2 long cast + melee dash/combo
Ramuh : Leyline style 0 movement allowed.

With that you have a gradiant of "I can move around and dps while doing mech" and "I can't move much, if at all and I should definitely not be used during a high movement mechanic"

Because there are 6 summons, even something as impractical as Ramuh (imagine a ten-chi-jin u CANT move) for 12.5s wouldn't be so bad because every single encounter have at least a 12s window where no movement is required once every 2min.

Because all 6 are needed, you cannot (shouldnt) do "Titan > Shiva > Garuda" in a row because you'd end up being extremely restricted for the next minute. The idea would really just be "triage your summon and mobility".

No need to move? Ramuh
Might have to move a bit? Ifrit/Leviathan
This is gonna be wack I'll surely pop sprint, Titan/Shiva/Garuda.

On top of that, rework burst phase a little bit to make them less boring and SMN would just be really nice.

I agree that every role should have easy job but I feel like PIC and RDM have about the right amount of simplicity in their kit and SMN with its current system could become a really interesting job with unique rotation as in "For this fight, we'd recommend that summoning order"