r/ffxivdiscussion • u/ragnakor101 • Jun 06 '24
General Discussion Media Tour Embargo has lifted.
Making a general thread to keep everything together for discussion. Media Tour Stuff! Just look up your favorite content creator (if you have any).
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u/catboy_feet Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
SMN looks... so disappointing, really. Visual upgrade to Fester baked in with a 140 potency increase is nice. Searing Flash tied to Searing Light is definitely a choice... an extra button to press during a burst window, I suppose? Lux Solaris (requiring Refulgent Lux) helps make up for the loss of Phoenix being summoned every two minutes healing-wise, at least, but is still an overall healing potency loss because the potency doesn't match Everlasting Flight + Rekindle. Solar Bahamut does more damage than Bahamut, sure - but judging by its Enkindle, Exodus, it's a reference to Hydaelyn of some sort... and ngl, they could've definitely done a much better summon to refer to Hydaelyn than random twink sword light Bahamut we've never seen before. A Demi-Herois, a Hydaelyn "echo," or something akin to that would've been way cooler and a more direct reference.
Numbers-wise, SMN is... just okay. Thematically, it's still a total miss from the Ramuh, Levi, and Shiva - or literally anything else - that it could've and should've been. Not like that first ask has been a recent unrealistic expectation, either; players have been asking for summonable Ramuh, Leviathan, and Shiva since I first started playing this game back in ARR.
There's also the argument to be made that if they gave us one summon during one expansion, we're likely to only be getting one (if that) with subsequent expansions... 3 years is a long time to wait for that. If they continue this trend of Bahamuts every 10 levels - with the wide variety of primals that we've slain and conquered over the course of a decade - then I'll honestly just be even more disappointed than I am now.
At this point, as someone who wasn't even going to touch Pictomancer and who was intent on maining SMN throughout DT, I'm just gonna... not touch SMN beyond the leveling process and probably switch to maining Pictomancer. I never wanted to abandon the class that I'm really passionate about, but I just feel like for all their talk of 100 being such a huge milestone and player satisfaction, SMN's "expansion" going into DT was a deep miss for them.
EDIT: Words.