Summoning?Follow

I am aware that the summons will roam the earth and all that goodness... and in knowing that i wonder what will the summoner actually use as its summons especially if all the staple avatars are going to be part of a story line and only summonable once... so what are we looking at as a summoner? all the elementals like in XI with a side of carby... or do you think there are more ideas up there sleeve with this?

hmmm I see... Thanks for bring that to my attention

i hope we see Fenrir again as a wolf... Was my fav from XI hands down...

Thats kinda what I was getting at in my head... Where is that flare for SMN in XIV cause I thought I had read that somewhere my self as well ... Really makes my second guess as to how they will go about a lot of different jobs ... How different can they make it ;P all part of the excitement and wait I guess

Minifrits? Just being able to call them that would be worth it.

I would think that the primals would have minions themselves, so maybe when you use a summon you get a henchman instead of the boss. The minions wouldn't necessarily look like the primal, Ifrit could have a hell hound for example...

From what I've heard, the primals will be available for a Free Company to win and summon.

So.... basically, a free company claims and defeats Ifrit. For the next week or so, their summoners WITH THEIR POWERS COMBINED can summon Ifrit all together and use him for fights. The contract expires after a week and he respawns and can be claimed by a different Free Company.

Summoners will probably use the sprites otherwise.

ive read the one and done as well... Would make more sense as a weekly thing tho

No. Yoshi said he's against this, which is why ARR's summoner isn't a typical type of summoner in the FF series. Free Companies summon the actual beast, players summon "essences" which as far as we know is basically putting (element) into a puppet.

This is what I remember, like you won't have a mini version, but maybe they would appear and cast a spell then go away, kinda like how they worked in VII.

Hrm, if the summons aren't even mini versions and only stay in as summon animations like the PSX FF games, I'm not sure I'll enjoy the job as much. For some reason, I thought the primal storyline would enable summoners to have access to as many summons as the devs put in the game (the throwbacks of the dozens or so in the series). No idea why I thought it would be something huge like that.

Is it possible that the summons available to the summoner are different from those you may fight through storyline or otherwise? Maybe you will be able to fight Garuda, Shiva, Ifrit, Ramuh, and Titan for quests or loot and summoners will be able to summon Odin, Bahamut, Leviathan, Carbuncle, and Phoenix that way there is no overlap between what is seen or interacted with in the world/quests and what summoners are able to control.

That's not how those minions work though. They just follow you around blinking with those dead, dead eyes. Summoner will summon a pet. They wouldn't go through the trouble of programming pet mechanics for Carbuncle and then not carry that over to the job portion.. It would just be a waste of good code.