Summoner Job And You!

[Kirith]

SMN was a broken job in FFXI and it was never fixed. It was however possibly the most entertaining job: epic Lv20 solo battles with mini espers or cool team battles against big espers, the ability to Magic Burst skillchains, many different abilities and elements to use, lots of breathtakingly powerful Astral Flows..... it required much skill and cold blood and was actually fairly powerful, but simply didn't have its own role in a party.

I would like to see a SMN made with the same mentality, but this time around with a proper role and place in a group.

[Malakhim]

Then why wasn't it in FF1 ?

Or FFII

Or FFX-2

And yes, there was already a thread about this at least twice.

The whole concept of summons post-FFX probably wouldn't work as well in FFXIV unless they're making some sort of compensation for it in the newly revamped(for the second time) battle system.

I agree that I'd rather a return to old-school "single fire" summons, as well as use of other summons such as Quetzacoatl, Siren, and Brothers.

On the topic of summons, it'd be interesting to see if they'd be willing to incorporate Doom Train or Eden into the storyline in some fashion.

We obviously also need Gilgamesh in some capacity.

Yes, this post was brought to you by FFVIII. Shut the hell up about it.

[PikachuLink]

Summoner Has SOOOOOO much potential in FFXI it was a support wasnt broken but just used as support with minor healing. But there is SO much they can do with summoner this time around and they should have learned from FFXI. dont base this summoner convo of comparing it to the FFXI summoner because it is VERY different game now. But the is no reason why FFXIV will not have a summoner. its a obviously VERY potentially awesome class. and like i said not having pet classes is only limiting...

[PikachuLink]

Also on the topic of single use attack style summons that would be just fine as well like i said i wanna see summoner i DO care how they impliment it but i will say i think this new development team is good enough to think of a good way to bring them in. wether single target attacks while they walk with you like a pet or a cast summon and dissapear style of play. but just so many good summons in FF it would be a shame for them to go to waste. and i would be highly upset.

[Evangela]

No Summons, Not Final Fantasy

[PikachuLink]

^ what evangela said is pretty much the initial thoughts of most of anyone who first thinks of a FF game yes the first 2 didnt have but that was before they knew what was good for them. lol. not saying those games were bad. just saying there is a reason why they have kept them in every game since then.

[Arcell]

Right and they ARE in this game but the circumstances are drastically different. Again, R38 main story quest explains a lot.

[Corrderio]

We obviously also need Gilgamesh in some capacity.

NO! I want him as an instanced fight on the big bridge in Coerthas as a side boss later on in the game >.>

[Anathiel]

you know in the other summoner thread somebody came up with an amazing way to implement summoners, you should take a look at it. the way he described putting it in it made it very old school final fantasy...I was just worried about the type of lag it might cause.

[PikachuLink]

ok i will deffinatly check that out for sure i wasnt aware there was another thread about summoners when i made this but i will look to see. i would like this thread to stay as a convo on wether people want it implemented and if so how and if not why not but yeah i will deffinatly check that out.