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Oh I see! That's a pretty cool idea, then =) Like, having to perform 10 actions before a 'special' becomes available?
The EXP farming with Avatars in XI was kinda buggy in that way, especially in Abyssea when they added Zantetsuken. Instant KO is a bit of a godly feature in MMOs as it is, let alone making it AoE.
The 15 min skills are the XIV equivalent of XI's 2-hour. Just lowering the time made them more useful and better applied to general battles and stuff. I don't think they'll add any recasts which are higher than 15 mins.

They are but they arent all the same as their XI equivalents for example Blm does not have Manafont and dragoon does not have call pet/spirit surge. Bard also has a different ability so there is plenty of room for SE to decide to do something different with it. Theres also people saying that free roaming mobs wont reward as much exp as they do now as well due to SE wanting the playerbase to do quests and instances for Experience points. If thats true then even if the 15 ability is a aoe damage ability for each primal then it may not even be an issue in ARR.

I'm not really against it but if your in the crowd of wanting to be able to swap in/out summons then that option has pretty much been blocked off, which maybe was tenrai's intention. It would push players to stick with one summon for long periods of time like the aoe buffs Avatars gave later in xi's life and possibly give more reason to have multiple Summoners in one party.