So Summoners will have all the previous summons huh?Follow

It's not a pet job like FFXI summoner. Arcanist will have carbuncle, summoner will "imbue carbuncle with the power of the summon" or something like that.

Well, the official page says:



So this makes me think we will be able to summon the actual primals and not just work through Carbuncle after we reach Summoner status. I wish they would give is a little Summoner teaser...

In time... in time.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2013 8:03am by Ryklin

精霊を呼び出せる召喚士というジョブも追加される？
吉田氏：　いずれ実装します。ペットユーザーというのは、MMORPGのクラスでは花形でもありますし。例えば「カーバンクル」は召喚士が呼べる召喚獣です。しかし「イフリート」や「ガルーダ」や「リヴァイアサン」、「オーディン」は蛮神であるというわけです。
GameWatch - Job Summoner where you can summon spirits will also be implemented?
YoshiP - We will eventually implement. Pet users are star in MMORPG class. For example carbuncle is a summon a summner can call however “Ifrit” or “Garuda” or “Leviathan” or “Odin” are gods.

「シヴァ」や「ラムウ」はどうですか？
吉田氏：　あの2体も蛮神の予定です。特にエレメンタル四元素＋光闇あたりに関しては確定で蛮神かなと。
GameWatch - How about Shiva or Ramu?
YoshiP - Those two are also planned as gods. Mainly 4 elements and Light/Dark are confirmed gods

Arcanist and Summoner
It’s the same as what I posted in the relevant thread regarding both of them, but I’ll just add the little comments and teases they made.
Please look forward to the auto-attack motion. (Throws the book?)
The players will be able to craft the books and they will have recipes. The class that crafts them is of course… can’t tell right now.
Summoners will not have carbuncle as a pet, but they’ll be using the primals as their source of power. However, not the primals themselves but they’ll use only a part of a primals strength. “A pet that the primals power dwells in” are Matsui’s exact words if I wasn’t mistaken.
The summoners will be able to borrow the power of 4 primals (this is what is planned till now, and could be expanded later on). The ones that are confirmed right now are Ifrit, and Garuda.

Sounds to me like gods will be like VII summons where you cast Ramuh and it's like a lightning spell but Carby is a pet like summon.

Agreed. Rift is a prime example of a game that has wayyyyy too many abilities. In any given soul all of them proc a different buff, so to be really optimal you end up with such a complex rotation that most players never take their eyes off their keybinds. That's going too far.

But swing swing swing WS is way too simplistic as well.

I'm hoping for a good blend that lets us make decisions, but doesn't require us to miss the beauty of the scenery as we fight.

From the artwork and tidbits, I presumed that you would do a similar thing, like open a rift-like portal where ifrit comes out partially and cast some spell and goes away.

Again, summoner is supposed to be 14s first pet job, so I doubt they would overlook the pet part, but he did say something to the tune of "it seems silly to see everyone walking around with their own personal Ifrit."

Edited, Mar 2nd 2013 2:34pm by Louiscool