Quote Originally Posted by derekx View Post
Depending on how creative the development team gets they can do pretty much anything. Being a new game, a summoner type class would likely have different mechanics. I don't think you'd see it the way it was done in FFXI even if there were no lore issues.

That said summons haven't always been elementals. In FFIV or (FF2 in the USA) summoner more or less just summoned monsters. And, yes, there were the normal elemental spirits in FFXI. I think pretty much anything can be done with the class and still feel very summoner like.
Well ya I agree, if they do something along those lines it would work. What I am stating is the classic summons, Bahamut, Ifrit, Shiva, Odin, etc... Those would not work because of this games storyline. We would need different types of summons for summoner class to feel like it really belongs