(Un)Official Arcanist/Summmoner Feedback Thread

[Kevee]

Aside from giving Summoner itself Contagion to at least make Ifrit more worthwhile to use, they could always give Ifrit an ability that increases the potency of the master's DoTs on the enemy, balanced to do around the same damage as the extended DoTs from Contagion. It'd provide the choice of wanting to have more "bursty" DoTs with the catch that you'd expend more MP in a given timeframe due to reapplying DoTs more often over longer DoTs that conserve MP and can be used to give more leeway for using Bane.

I doubt they have a system in place to be able to do this.

No DoTs function in that way.

It would have to do something stupid like, take a snapshot of your DoTs, get rid of them, and then re-apply them with the snapshotted time.

Not saying it can't be done, but it's silly to try and boost it in that way. Not to mention it would have overly complicated coding because it would have to give more damage to, say, Bio, but less to Bio II.


Edit: I'm not saying it's a bad idea in theory, it's just I don't think FFXIV can implement it well.