Arcanist (Summoner) Summon/Pet Control

[Elexia]

All my gut instincts tells me is... why the fudge did it have to be carbuncle?

Why not? It's actually pretty fitting than something like Bahamut or Fenrir lol.

[TTred]

Tonberries are cooler than carbuncle.

There is no lie in your words.

[Masamune1004]

I'm gonna guess that it'll use the same gambit system that our chocobos will use, but I could be wrong.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Why not? It's actually pretty fitting than something like Bahamut or Fenrir lol.

It's the whole image thing. Can you really take a lalafel summoner seriously if they summon carbuncle, or would you rather squeeze them to death because they are too cute?

[Icecylee]

It's the whole image thing. Can you really take a lalafel summoner seriously if they summon carbuncle, or would you rather squeeze them to death because they are too cute?

Who in the world is taking any lalafell at all seriously to begin with?

[AlaulaTheGreat]

I hope that the arcanist/smn has two mode of battle. One where they set the pet on auto attack and occasionally use abilities corresponding to what element it is. The other being the player channels and looses complete control over themselves to gain direct control of their of their pet with added power buffs.

Why the buff in pet power when in direct control? Obvious reason is the lost in control of the main character.

Why would you want direct control of a pet? on how the pet's abilities work, I remember seeing "Tank" on the arcanist slide image. Would you like tanking to be left up to game AI? Would you like to be able to optimize pet DPS output over the lost of control of the main character and any abilities they may have had.
Say for instance you set up cure/stone/raise on SMN (This is me assuming one of SMN's usable abilities is in CNJ) But you want to go completely into your fire...dog...thing... or w/e and gain full advantage of all their abilities (Which I suspect will be large enough to warrant staying in that trance mode ie the ability to combo and what not) while at the same time loosing cure, raise, and stone.

But in all I rather just see some gameplay on arcanist. ; ;

[Jinrya-Geki]

Who in the world is taking any lalafell at all seriously to begin with?

No one takes the littles one seriously till they do something extreme. Had to do that though when you summon an adorable monster.

[Wynn]

all the better for carby to take your enemies by surprise when you tell him to eat off their faces.