I remember being excited for Musketeer and than nuffin'. at least SMN existed

I miss old summoner so much

I really liked heavensward and stormblood summoner.

I miss ARR - SHB FF14 in general…

MicromenEGIng

Walking backwards like he’s going back in time this one. Nice touch😊

Lmao the edit at the very end

Ooof... I got this book from Walmart... I didn't see it before but now I can't unsee it

Bring this back already

Really struggling to log in to this game, I used to play this every day but since endwalker I think the formula has gotten kinda stale. Stormblood was honestly peak for side content, I loved eureka with my fc and all the shenanigans that happened inside. The only thing I log in for now is the weekly savage reclears with the fc.

WHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTT

mm i like to collect blm rods. relic rods, rods from trials, rods from raids, dungeon rods, gold saucer rods, pvp rods.. all the rods. hw relic had several different models, and replicas are not good enough. it was a long grind. retainer has them all stashed. i like to look through them sometimes. earned in battles from years past.

Damn I love RDM from FFXI because it's the enfeeblement master but SMN on XIV was my job because of its dots and less about the summoning aspect lol. SMN on FFXI is the king or queen there too. But now.... FFXIV doesn't have dots anymore ... Wtf lol. I really need to get back on and play thru Endwalker..

garuda going NOPE was pretty in character of her tho.

Thanks for the history lesson. I came to FFXIV in 2019. So I remember some of this.

I will never stop missing old Summoner, spaghetti code be damned.

I never played XI so the references are lost on me, but the mechanics were cool. Prishe wiped the fucking floor with me on my first run, though. I did *not* understand her.

Summoner in any other Final fantasy summon monster black magic white magic a Blitz whip FF14 Bio an Bane smh.

Olaf?

Isn’t RDM beating out all the other phys range and SMN atm? lol Verwinning

absolutely the most fun i've ever had on a blind patch day run since Paradigm's Breach, the screaming we did when Fafnir spun around with the fire was what Ralgr's meteor swap mechanic should've felt like. it bugs me that there's no exploration mode since they put little notes on the floor but they're out of the way so you either have to return and run *all the way back* or wander off during the trash pulls to find them. maybe with the grandness of the effort they put into recreating these environments we'll finally get Explorer Mode for alliance raids.... it is absolutely possible to wipe on Shadowlord at 3% though, DF healer lb3'd at exactly the wrong moment and we all ate the massive bleed completely raw, so don't let your guard down unless you're well before that huge bleed cast!

Counterpoint: As someone who did the ARR relics, relic grind was an incredible chore and i'm happy it is gone, especially when the relics occasionally end up being best in slot.

Relics were later than 1 patch in. Eureka released at 4.25 after Sigmascape because i remember people bitching the ilvl of anemos wpns was 20 lower than Kefka Savage.

I miss ARR and HW when relics werent ugly and/or generic looking.

No video has ever made me feel like a relic like this one. I remember 2.0 Summoner like it was yesterday. I miss Titan-Egi as my buddy cop! He was so special to me! ; ^ ;

I remember the good old days where summoner wasnt actually a summoner but a lame poison mage with clunky mcnuggets. Those who complains old summoner was better... Youre remembering wrong.

I started my journey when Stormblood was the new expansion. And I liked sommoner a lot. I will also always remember how some random mentor back then said I was playing the job pretty well. Good old times.

I really miss Summoner from back then, I swapped to Machinist after finishing 5.0 story, having dabbled in it off and on since its release, and just never went back. I've tried Summoner more recently and it feels so empty, it might have an "identity" in theory now but it doesn't play like it has one. I miss Arcanist, I miss a job that felt like you were playing an RTS in the MMO, that had a reason for your class quests to be so focused on "tactics". Also part of the lack of responsiveness of pets back then was animation locks iirc. I don't have a lot of hope for Beastmaster if they treat it as a limited job the same way they do with BLU. If I can't use it in actual content then it's going to be relegated to being a 'gimmick' and I probably will lose interest quickly (just like the devs have clearly lost interest in BLU) because what's the point. I want to be wrong, though. I really do. These days I've started picking up black mage because it gives me a challenge to work on and has some of that "Nobody else plays like this job does" feeling to it with having to learn the fights on a different level. It scratches a bit of that itch but it's still not the same. Really hope their talk about giving jobs more identity again turns out to be great and make jobs actually feel different again. For all its jank and problems I miss so much about older FFXIV (ARR+ ofc), felt like it had more heart in its world and systems.

I want a DOT job back, with stacking effects, like have an air, fire, wind, water, thunder, and ice dots and earth, fire + air would become (or turn a final dot) into pyroclastic flow dot. Do the same with everything else, so you would always be trying to stack DOTs after DOTs for MEGA DOTS!!!!! :D

I used to be a summoner main but they have so much against them. Even their weapons are always awful and boring

You have S rank personality and voice dont even play ff 14 and enjoyed this

RIP summoner :,( I miss you

Ive been asking for BST for YEARS. I think it would be a great way to experiment with multi-job classes. Depending on the beast you currently are taming you can either be a Healer, DPS, Or Tank. It could be so amazing and who cares if you syart seeing dungeons of mostly BST? Itll be fun for us and thats what should matter.

Me watching this after a 3 year break and needing to know I wasn’t imagining how Summoner used to be and missing the hell out of it 😂

I have such fond memories of FFXI. This raid was amazing 😸 The notes in sky were too spot on😂😂😂

To be fair, I would say the modern version invokes the idea of actual summons more than the OG. However, DoT classes are my favorite in other games. I would love for them to actually bring a DoT class back and just steal some of the OG summoner abilities.

I only want Beastmaster if it's a normal job and not a limited one like BLU. They could make it a phys ranged class that uses a whip and it's different animals to attack for it or something.

Man you kind of forget how things used to be lol

Remembering Ifrit dying to tankbusters at Kefka, because tank decided to move to my beloved fiery boy and kill it! 😢

Dawntrail combat encounters are pretty lush

Eureka was horrid. No not eureka!!

The fact that the SMN changed every expansion ... fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.... I switched to WHM after stormblood, had enough of this constant nonsense changes, and always clunky as hell to work with. That was the last straw. Play PCT if you want play caster dps.

I missed summoned friends that can tank for me.

Fun fact there are notes throughout the raid that reference things in 11 such as in Tu'Lia there is a note talking about getting pants from Byakko (Byakko, Seiryu, Suzaku, and Genbu were bosses you could fight in the area.) as well as a small detail that the sword that was usually lodged in Fafnir's chest Ridell can be seen in a stump at the back of Fafnir's boss arena. Aquarius the crab you fought before Fafnir was a notable notorious monster that would often sneak up on leveling parties that were using robber crabs to level. So much love to my first MMO in this alliance raid as well as a challenge to whet the appetite.

This raid reminded me so much of how I miss ffxi that I am going back when my new pc comes in since they still won't bring back to consoles

I feel like this guy talking is a furry.

I miss my Dot Mage... now we have an inferior off-brand pokemon trainer.

yea as someone who started ARR back in 2013. I was wondering what happened to summoner.

Oh i loved smn back then. It took skill to play it and my static was always impressed on how good of a smn i was (still am) Smn main for life. Leo Darkstar (Excalibur)

If you played xi you would of known to get that fkn blm first lol ggs funny stuff.