Summoner - What it needs.

[Conchoidal]

It'd be nice if they made brought back Carbuncle auto-attacks, even if you couldn't directly interact with them (maybe these could change depending on the previous summon? Like summoning Garuda-Egi/Emerald Garuda could upgrade the auto-attack to a low-potency AoE like Gust until the next summon).

Elemental summons should cost MP or have a longer cast time, and Enkindle could be made into an ability again which upgrades their signature attacks (and maybe they could rework Burning Strike, Rock Buster, and Aerial Slash so you can choose between different damage types or effects, like maybe Burning Strike now does high single target damage and Aerial Slash does high AoE damage but worse single target damage so you'd prioritise saving Enkindle for Garuda in single target combat and Ifrit during AoE).

Also just bring back old Aetherflow again, it'd make sense if SMN had actual MP requirements again and connects the Arcanist jobs again.

[Carighan]

Also, while I like that you propose the summon doing most/all of the attacking, I personally enjoy contributing to the casting rotation of the job, it just needs more variety - more melee options, some differentiation between ST/AoE, fast vs. slow casts, etc.

Note that mechanically, it'd still be you doing the attacking. You use the command skills that might even have cast bars, and they cause GCDs. It'd be purely a visual/style/theme change to make the cast we cast not do anything immediately, but a second later Ifrit casts a big attack at the target or so.

[seolhyun]

SMN needs a FULL rework again. but watch them just add the other 3 summons but they are just "aoe" summons that you use in dungeon trash lol

[Khryseis_Astra]

SMN needs a FULL rework again. but watch them just add the other 3 summons but they are just "aoe" summons that you use in dungeon trash lol

That sounds like a nightmare, but thankfully also highly unlikely. lol Can you imagine having to single target every mob because you hadn’t gotten to the AOE gems yet? XD

If they use the existing gem summon framework they built, each gem summon has a single target and AOE version of their skills.