Suggestion: Make family summoning a Bard/Summoner skill only

I had an idea I'd like the community's opinion on (excuse me if this has already been discussed and I missed it):

Ditch the family summoning and make it a Bard/Summoner skill.

Even though there are obvious benefits to family summoning, it's pretty clear people are worried about the abuse it will bring with it. I don't see a possibility where you can get rid of summoning completely, but I do feel that making it a class specific skill will create an extra gameplay role and makes you revise your group/family set up.
I'd personally envision it as a spell like:

Summon Family
Summon your entire family to your current location
Cooldown 4 hours

My idea behind changing the amount of people from 1 to up to 7 and increasing the cooldown to 4 hours instead of 30 min - is it will be a more impactful skill. It will keep it's function but has less likelihood of being abused. This will mean that you need to think ahead when using it and will give the Bard or Summoner an extra role to add to a party.
Why Bard and or Summoner? Mostly because the Bard is already seen as an support class and Summoner…well….it’s in the name.

Let me know what you think of this

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Arkethos

I like the idea of main-class Summoners having that ability, to pull an entire group to their location... but also maybe consider anyone that uses Summoner as a sub-class to be able to summon 1 person at a time?

Also, instead of Bard, perhaps Mage would make more sense... to be able to open a portal if you're an Archwizard, Warlock or Sorcerer? I guess when I think of Bard, I really think of the FFXI Bard.

Crowley

Beekeeper wrote: »

Those are my thoughts too. Family summon is not a tactical tool, and if it turns into one, should just be removed.

This is my opinion also.

I thought making it a class utility (with a 4 hour limitation) would give it a purpose in the world. Instead of a player convenience

Crowley

Arkethos wrote: »

I guess when I think of Bard, I really think of the FFXI Bard.

I've noticed I only have the DnD Bard as example. They're capable of opening entire gates to different realms. I didn't take in mind that other people have a completely different view on what a Bard adds to the party.

apmax

Personally I would prefer no summoning other players at all, family or no. The world being so big that moving across it may be prohibitively time consuming for people with limited time to play is just something that those players and their friends have to plan for. It's not like all the high level areas are going to be on the other side of the world, things getting built up as nodes develop means one area can remain relevant for players across the whole level range.

That said, the ability to summon one person from across the world would be a fair enough summoner ability. Give it a long cooldown, make summoning another summoner trigger the cooldown for both players. A support class being required for a feature like this isn't anything out of the ordinary and helps give the classes more of an identity as well as mitigating possible abuse of the system.

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