FFXIV: Dawntrail Arcanist/Summoner 1 to 100 Leveling Skills Guide

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New? Got too many skills? Made the mistake of using a level skip and have no idea what anything does? Just hate reading? Try this guide out!

This guide seeks to teach new Summoners how to Summoner properly, without getting too deep into optimization. I’ll be showing off and explaining some openers but not delving too much deeper beyond that and general skill usage. Endgame is a long way away and there’s lots to learn along the way. Start slow and work your way up one skill at a time! Then, graduate to more advanced guides.

General DPSing Guide: https://youtu.be/QV7gLorSweo
Mage Role Actions Guide: https://youtu.be/Hj7PpuSvCH4
Guide to my HUD: https://youtu.be/GgXOHas9GyY
Dictionary of Terms: https://youtu.be/Oi8-myAY-Uc

Opener images: https://imgur.com/a/3f6EqPV

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Timestamps:
Video Outline: 0:00
Playstyle Summary 1:46
L1. Ruin: 2:42
L2. Summon Carbuncle: 2:52
L2. Radiant Aegis: 3:19
L4. Physick: 4:19
L6. Aethercharge: 4:41
L6. Summon Ruby: 5:28
L6. Gemshine and Ruby Ruin: 5:50
Role Actions: Addle and Sleep: 6:52
L10. Energy Drain and Fester: 7:10
L12. Resurrection: 8:07
Role Action: Lucid Dreaming: 8:50
L15. Enhanced Aethercharge and Summon Topaz: 8:54
Role Action: Swiftcast: 10:15
L20. Maim and Mend: 10:27
L22. Enhanced Aethercharge II and Summon Emerald: 10:36
L22. Opener: 11:19
L26. Outburst: 14:39
L26. Precious Brilliance: 15:09
L30. Gemshine Ruin II: 15:58
L30. Ruin II: 16:15
Job Requirements: 16:26
L30. Summon Ifrit: 16:41
L35. Summon Titan: 16:58
L40. Maim and Mend II: 17:19
L40. Painflare: 17:31
Role Action: Surecast: 18:04
L45. Summon Garuda: 18:08
L50. Enkindle: 18:49
Pet Glamour: 19:44
L50. AoE Opener: 20:04
L52. Energy Siphon: 21:35
L54: Ruin III and Gemshine Ruin III: 22:07
L58. Dreadwyrm Trance: 22:24
L60. Astral Flow and Deathflare: 23:09
L60. Opener: 23:53
L60. AoE Opener: 24:55
L62. Enhanced Energy Siphon and Ruin IV: 25:22
L66. Searing Light: 26:24
L70. Summon Bahamut and Akh Morn: 27:25
L70. Opener: 29:00
L70. AoE Opener: 30:05
L72. Gemshine Rites: 30:23
L74. Tri-disaster and Precious Brilliance Disaster: 30:41
L80. Summon Phoenix and Rekindle: 30:51
L82. Precious Brilliance Catastrophe: 34:23
L84. Ruin Mastery IV: 34:33
L86. Elemental Mastery: 34:46
L88. Enhanced Radiant Aegis: 38:00
L90. Enkindle II: 38:35
L90. Opener: 39:15
L90. AoE Opener: 40:04
L92. Enhanced Fester and Necrotize: 40:40
L94. Arcane Mastery: 40:58
L96. Enhanced Searing Light and Searing Flash: 41:14
L100. Summon Solar Bahamut: 41:55
L100. Openers: 43:42
Outro: 45:07

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24 thoughts on “FFXIV: Dawntrail Arcanist/Summoner 1 to 100 Leveling Skills Guide”

  1. I was very curious to see this one, as a SMN main for the past 6 years. I am really not the best player, and I also hadn't really gone and re-learned the early rotations after the big changes (removing DOTs etc). I don't do early content often on SMN. Very interesting. I admit I usually use Radiant Aegis on myself to compensate for my errors 😉
    Maybe one small detail is that in DT the changed Crimson Strike to be usable later (though not very long) you used to have to use it immediately, but now you can choose to move away and back into melee. Not a big deal but in some cases it can be nice.

    LOL about Slipstream… I still see even very seasoned players move away from it or panic when they see it. We're just trying to help, please keep the enemies in the green puddle !

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  7. If you could make the decisions for Yoshi-P, what summons would you add in 8.0 and, more importantly, how would they be implemented? I personally like the idea of a Shiva install state ala Enshroud or Awakening.

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  11. I just want you to know my mother (60s) started playing ff14 recently and I sent her your videos to help her learn arcanist/smn. They helped her out so much in understanding not only what to press but *why*. You have consistently made the best intro job guides for years! Even I, a veteran of the game since 2.0, have always referred back to your videos when trying to learn or re-learn a job. Keep up the truly excellent work!!

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  12. Tbh I don't even care if we get new summons I just want the class have little more going on
    Also I kinda hate how solar bahamut interacts with death or killing a alliance raid boss before summoning regular baha/pheonix desyncing solar from raid buffs possibly for rest of instance

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  13. It's easy to be sarcastic about a Summoner guide after the rework, especially with the lackluster additions in Dawntrail, but at the end of the day just because something is "easy" doesn't mean it's inuititive, especially if you have little to no experience in the caster role or even the MMO genre as a whole. As always your effort is appreciated, Wesk.

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  14. It does seem like how out of all the casters, Summoner got the short end of the stick with seemingly just Lunar Bahamut at best. Who knows what the future will hold for the class, but it would be nice if there was seemingly more to the class than what it currently is. Either way, Summoner still remains the first caster Class I usually max out before the other casters since it is still fun to break out the moves and how straightforward it is.

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  20. Your "watch as you go from this…" is always so incredibly on point. 😀
    I liked the new rework in EW, but Solar Bahamut… idk. I appreciate a certain symbolism Larry talked about in his video, but imo instead of pulling a reskin out of their hat, they could have used Quetzacoatl instead, adding a neat little extra lore nod with this and adding a Dawntrail region reference. (Not going to elaborate on a video aimed at sprouts obviously.) But that aside, it took me a long while to adjust my brain to Bahamut being the second demi now, and seeing phoenix only once in a blue moon. (Phoenix doesn't even appear on a Stone Sky Sea dummy duty, because the timer runs out after 3 minutes…) The Solar Bahamut heal is neat but I still prefer the phoenix heal because it gives me the feeling of having to use half a braincell on who to put it on, and the healers see they can do more DPS while the tank has the mini excog on them. Honestly, I'd rather have them stay with EW SMN + that extra searing light carby attack, than bloating the rotation up for no real reason other than having to do something new without breaking that damn 2 minute meta. ^^;

    I wonder what we're getting with 8.0. 6 minute rotation? 😀

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  21. I want to add a small aside on the pet hotbar

    For summoner is useless
    But if you want to branch on scholar to try healing (or to cheat the duty finder queue, I won't judge) a small optimization is placing your faerie in the center of the boss arena since half your healing kit is combosed by skills that originate from said faerie

    Just to be sure you actually get everyone regardless

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  23. One of my friends has been confused by low level summoner, I think because gemshine is the first genuinely complicated button a player is likely to run into, and makes arcanist seem a lot more complicated than the job ultimately is. Glad to see the updated guide so the information is clearly up to date even if it hasn't changed much from endwalker.

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