Summoner. The new old job that is new in this old game that feels new. It’s fantastic and I think you’ll love it. Not only do you get some awesome primals to summon instead of a chicken nugget, you also get to cast the powerful attacks yourself. Making you feel powerful and quite stylish.
Next will be Gunbreaker
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I been playing Summoner since the end of Heavensward, my favorite summoner was the Stormblood one as I was a one woman team with titan tanking, my chocobo healing and me dpsing. It was so great, right as I warmed up to the Shadowbringers version Endwalker was here and I agree the job really find itself at 86.
As I love playing on alts and have been spinning up 2 new characters to avoid queue times and of course picked arcanist because it's 2 jobs for one… the early game with gemshine is horrific, as it doesn't give you the option to push it before you start battle I forget it exist until I already killed things and if I do remember to push it I still got a cast time for ruin so I feel no benefit for using it. It get's slightly better when I managed to get all the gems, but it's simply the same rotation from that moment until lvl 86. Super easy to learn and do but so mind numbing I forget that I'm fighting things. Still somehow I love summoner and I'm looking forward to see how they will evolve it from this starting point.
I love that they keep us on our toes every Expac. Feeling out how I want to plan out my rotation per fight for the Savages is fun though lol.
Since I've been maining SMN since I started the game I never realized that with the new changes the class feels really flat in earlier levels and only till higher up does it get a significant change. No wonder a lot of people are salty about it…
Still love it though!
Since ARR i played that Job only all two Years leveld it Up and thats it , but now its so good to play it makes so much Fun i hope they add some new Primels to it in the Future.
Missed opportunity on the rework. Should have Hydaelyn and Zodiark by 90, and the others lower. Also Primal drift vs Searing Light is bad, but SPS is optimal for certain instances. So 2 years until it gets revamped again unless it becomes an abandoned empty husk like DRK or Machinist. Though I hear it is good for turning the UI off and using mods for Kaiju battles for screenshots.
There's at least one more cast in Slipstream, but I'm not a summoner main. Also, Carbuncle abilities can be used while in any of the primal forms, just not during their initial summoning attack, as far as I'm aware.
Leveling as summoner before Endwalker was bad but it had it's moments. Leveling a summoner in Endwalker is absolute torture and until you get Astral flow for Garuda, Titan and Ifritt. This is why I won't ever do old content synced as summoner. It might deal a lot of damage but it feels the absolute worst out of every single job before "Endwalker endgame" and don't get me started on pre 58.