Summoner Class

[ancara22]

This is my first post here, so sorry if I seem a little newbish. XD

Anyways, a class that could easily be done is a summoner class. Basically, this class can have a main focus on summoning beasties that could appear, do something, and then vanish. They could do things like deal damage, effect statuses and stats of both players and enemies, heal, and anything else ya can think of.

In fact, I can do a sort-of theoretical list of summons and stuff a summoner could learn from level 1 to level 60...ish. It goes something like this:

lvl 1 - Imp (10 MP, summons an imp to do decent damage to a single enemy)
lvl 4 - Chocobo (15 MP, does weak non-elemental damage to a row of enemies)
lvl 5 - Meditate (does the usual "heal 15% of MP thing)
lvl 7 - Fairy (25 MP, heals a party member by a small amount of HP)
lvl 9 - Earth Elemental (20 MP, casts slow1 on a single enemy of your choosing)
lvl 12 - Scorpion (25 MP, poisons a single enemy of your choosing)
lvl 15 - Ramuh (45 MP, Casts Lit 2 on a single column of enemies, doing the same damage as if it were on a single enemy)
lvl 19 - Siren (35 MP, Silences an enemy(basically makes them unable to cast spells))
lvl 23 - Vampire (40 MP, drains about 5% amount of HP from an enemy and gives it to you)
lvl 26 - Shiva (55 MP, casts Ice 2 on a group of enemies for the same damage as if it was for a single enemy)
lvl 30 - Carbuncle (40 MP, casts Shield 1 on the entire party)
lvl 34 - Phoenix (65 MP, revives a KOed party member)
lvl 39 - Ifrit (60 MP, casts Fire 2 on a row of enemies for the same damage as if it was for a single enemy)
lvl 43 - Asura (50 MP, heals the entire party for about 15% of their health)
lvl 47 - Cockatrice (45 MP, Paralysis a row of enemies)
lvl 54 - Odin (70 MP, has a 50% chance of killing an enemy instantly)
lvl 60 - Bahamut (85 MP, does major non-elemental damage to a large group of enemies)

It's not perfect, but it's a basic idea on how summons could work for this class.

Anyways, other details: First, basic starting stats.

starting HP: 35
starting MP: 20
starting strength: 6
starting vitality: 7
starting dexterity: 8
starting agility: 7
starting willpower: 11

Now for the stats they would gain per level(possibly).

+7 HP
+6 MP
+1 strength
+2 vitality
+3 dexterity
+3 agility
+3 will

They could also gain either +3 HP or +3 MP from stat points.

As for what they guys could equip, they'd obviously use robes, and maybe leather armour, along with headpieces and rings. Their main choice for weapons would have to be Staves and Blunts.

So yeah, it's a basic idea for a summoner class for the game, but I hope ya liked the idea. Hopefully at least some form of this could make it into the game some day. Until then, can't wait to see what happens next. :3

[Divusmors]

It's been discussed before, and it's always been rejected. Although I must say, you've been the more detailed person to bring up this class as of yet.

A couple of those summons need a lot more information on how they work, such as the bahamut summon just says 'Major damage'. Ok, that's nice and all, but are we talking towards the pearl side, or the nuke side? Not to mention the simple fact of it being multiple enemies puts every other caster class to shame, as well as knights using boosted puree backed with pure str.

Not to mention that a lot of these summons are names from Final Fantasy games. It's something we've been trying to pull away from, a lot. All of our holiday icons are BH made, our music is becoming BH made. All we have left or close to it, are monster and class icons really. That would be very problematic with this outlined summoner.

Oh, also, the basis of a summoner is to not project your own energy outside of bringing form another entity to do a very specific biding, be it heal, damage, or disrupt. That would take immense power and concentration, years of learning etc etc that I do not think they would be very fast at all. +3 agi and dex, and the starting agi and dex seem a little high.

Heck, I would almost argue the +2 vit to help compensate for the overpowering abilities the class has, but that's a lot of suicide marches in HGs. Definitely do not allow the use of leather armor. Too much defense ontop of speed ontop of versitility in damage and status (ROW of paralyzed monsters... way overpowering).

[ancara22]

I'll just say things in this order:

1.) Yeah, I definitely should have added more info to some of them, as well as better chosen what a few should have done. XD

2.) Maybe, most likely, you could use mainly certain monsters in the game as the summons for this class.

3.) Yeah, I didn't think too much about the stats and if they were right. I was just wingin' it there based on what I knew at that moment.

4.) Good idea, no leather armour. Just keep it at cloth armour.


So yeah....the idea definitely needs some tweaks. If ya don't wanna use it, then ok. I just wanted to see what you guys thought of the idea, that's all. :3

[Sur Realis]

One of the main reasons Summoners will not be in THG is because it largely goes against the storyline, being two higher beings that are using Darlow as, essentially, a place to war, and you, the puny human, is stuck in between it trying to figure out what's going on.

Pulling higher beings from other dimensions goes against this. The only way to work around this is to rework the class to be less of a summoner than something else - for example, Rangers are practically summoners in that they have other forms fight for them, instead of fighting themselves.

[Constantine]

You forgot the "Summon Chocromancer" spell. It summons a half chocobo\necromancer that attacks with zombie chocobo eggs! Best summon evar!

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