[Pole] Do you want to see the summoner class reworked?

[Rydia13]

I think my, and a majority of others', main issues are exemplified quite well in Rydia's signature.

Bigger sizes, and useful avatars, would be a massive improvement, instead of pretty much just using 1 egi all the time that's the same size as a doormouse.

I would like to see a few tweaks to the job like I said earlier but I dont feel like we need a complete overhaul of the job. Little things like making the Egis bigger and making them all useful. We're going to be receiving Ramuh Leviathan and Shiva in due time and I don't wana be stuck using just one. All(except Titan) should have equal DPS output but in different ways.

Being able to summon primals for LB is going to be so epic lol I really hope that's one of the changes for us. I'm fine with pet not being the main source of damage though. You know what I DO hate though, that your pets leave you of you move to far from them. That needs to be changed.

[Rydia13]

FFII through to FFX should be excluded because they are not MMOs. From what I've read about XI, avatars were bigger but certainly not more useful.

Actually, the avatars were pretty useful providing a wide array of neat buffs and spike damage every 45 seconds. The problem was that the SMN itself not only had paper defense and the lowest HP of all jobs, but also was fairly useless outside of being a ghetto makeshift healer due to our Avatar buffs and massive MP pool.

[Akiza]

The way the Summoner Egis are set up is Garuda is the boss killer, Ifrit the mob killer and Titan is used for fates and open world content. When the probably should of made the Egis fill a certain niche
Ifrit - a melee nuke
Titan - an off tank that can generate threat and hold aggro
Garuda - a caster type pet with long range nukes and aoe circles.

[Hurlstone]

Especially since the "improvements" these kinds of threads suggest would wreck its current state of being and annoy everyone who currently enjoys smn being a good class. So this will never happen. (hopefully)

Also a "pole" on this site is hardly indicative of the general populace since a large amount of players avoid this forum like the plague.

Indeed. There is nowhere near the amount of outcry to warrant a complete re-jig of the job, I would say. Especially when most people complaints seem to steam from an aesthetic complaint (Egi look crap, not big enough... not my opinions) rather then gameplay. I do think they will perhaps make the other egi more important and less restrictive though.

[Sen_Terrechant]

Indeed. There is nowhere near the amount of outcry to warrant a complete re-jig of the job, I would say. Especially when most people complaints seem to steam from an aesthetic complaint (Egi look crap, not big enough... not my opinions) rather then gameplay. I do think they will perhaps make the other egi more important and less restrictive though.

Yes i could see them rebalancing the Egi. As of right now you will never use Titan. Ifrit is almost there, the only thing holding it back is most fights require too much movement and its melee.

Most of these people suggesting things have their head up their own butt

[Lazearus]

Yes.

I want a job where the focus is on the pets and not my STDs. It would be nice if the pets have greater utility (party-wide buffs, niche abilities for situational uses) rather than the miserable 4 abilities.

Also being able to summon elemental sprites with their own AI would be awesome.

Of course, not forgetting better looking egis.

[Barimu]

The job summoner in this game is not a summoner. It is an Affliction Warlock and that's fact.

[Jetto]

I love how our dps are focused around dots. do think we could use another dot to buff up our dps, thunder nerf was sad

[Dwill]

The job summoner in this game is not a summoner. It is an Affliction Warlock and that's fact.

Wrong terminology. A fact is:

fact [fakt]
noun
1.
something that actually exists; reality; truth:

What you have is an:

o·pin·ion [uh-pin-yuhn]
noun
1.
a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.

[Exstal]

The job summoner in this game is not a summoner. It is an Affliction Warlock and that's fact.

You'd be wrong still. It's FFIV's Rydia's take on Summoner.