[McCrae]

Hello Fellow Summoners:

I am very happy to report that I finally made it!
I am officially a summoner!!

Now.....here is the question:

1. At what level should I consider seeking other Avatars?

2. How do my Avatars ( currently just carbuncle ) get stronger?
Do they grow stronger as I lvl ?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[Version_1]

We'll im no summoner, but in 9 levels i will be. plus i know unlimited internet / real world resources, so here are the answers to your questions

(1) Try somewhere around 60 - 65. the avatars will kick your ass! if you want an avatar, then try to level up whatever job you got to level 30 in the first place then when u get to the higher levels, seek out a party or maybe help from your LS to help you get an avatar. Of course you have to find their cloysters, but i cant help u there.

(2) Yes, as you level, you avatars increase in strengh. also they get abilitys at certain levels, i think. i know they get abilitys, but there mght be more to it than that, i dunno.

hope it helps

[Gilthanos]

Hey McCrae, I got summoner too a long time ago...and when i went outside and did my first summon...i said...that's it...i can't be a summoner. Know why? Cause Elvaan look like they are getting ready to take a crap while summoning.....so ugly...

[Version_1]

LMFAO

[Gilthanos]

But on a lighter note....as soon as i'm UBER enough to get the other summons.....I may take my craps all over the world and shite out my own Avatar Inc. I also saw Fenrir in action today in the Crawler's Nest...i almost let my party take on a Helm beetle on their own caus ei was too busy trying ot get a good screen shot. I turned around and saw a beetle kicking our SAM's ass.

[Sirch]

I am also new to the summoning game, but I know a few high level summoners and asked them some questions, for avatars it depends which one you are going for, Titan you can do with 5 level 50s and 1 level 30, Avatars get stronger when you level and thier Blood Pacts get stronger with your summoning level, The spirits (air,earth,lightning,fire ect..) dont get blood pacts, but they do cast random spells of thier element, so the Air Spirit will sometimes cast Aero in the middle of battle, these can be hard to use at low level because of the high MP cost, hope I helped ya.

[Wickett]

McCrae... becoming a SMN is going to take a lot of hard work on your part. You first have to build up an impressive amount of fame in San d'Oria, Bastok, Windurst, and Norg/ Tenshodo. After you've done 150-200 repeatable quests for each of the three starting cities and maybe 50 for the Tenshodo, you'll be able to open the avatar quests, giving you the opportunity to defeat them. Then you can start looking for avatar hunting parties in Lower Jeuno... WHMs can start looking as early as lvl 50, but any other class will need to be 60+. I strongly suggest you get as many avatars as possible before lvling SMN, because the job isn't worth playing without them.
To answer your other questions, capping your summoning magic skill will make your avatars' abilities more powerful and accurate (so Carbuncle's Poison Nails wills do more damage and connect more often.) And yes, your avatars become more powerful and learn new abilities as your SMN levels up. Hope that helps~

[starfire]

Thanks Wickett and Sirch. Finnally some hard info on summoning skill and what it does.

[StrungOut]

Dont even touch your summoner job unless you have at least 75 % of the avatars or most people take you as a class act joke .....Of course thats your game and not mine :|
The real way to wield the job is collect all the avatars then start from lvl 1 and build them as you progress in lvls :wall . So your best bet is to take you primary original job to lvl 60ish then kill some avatars


unless you wanna be a carbuncle summoner :wall:scream

[Meiyu]

Wickett, you forgot you need Rabao fame for Garuda, one of the most useful avatars.

[Wickett]

Rabao is connected to San d'Oria... if you build up to lvl 7 or 8 fame in Sando, then Shiva and Garuda will both become available to you.

[Nohmaan]

Theres a lvl 46 summoner on our server with only Carbuncle...

[Meiyu]

Wickett :
Rabao is connected to San d'Oria... if you build up to lvl 7 or 8 fame in Sando, then Shiva and Garuda will both become available to you.

Yes, but that is quite inefficient. Better off building up Selbina fame. This will net you MAX fame in Sandoria, Bastok, and Rabao - three for one.

[Nohmaan]

I got the Trial By Ice quest but couldnt get Trial by wind til after i did the entire Clay Quest

[Wickett]

That's what I did Meiyu^^ ... stacks of Boyahda moss made my life very easy. I didn't wanna give away all my secrets though~

[Hamburglar]

If you defeat an avatar on your warrior, can you use him on your summoner? Or must you be a summoner when fighting the avatar?

[Corey]

i am also a summoner level 12 so far and i am going to get my fame up so i can accept the avator quest then get 5 ppl level 75 and kick the avators ass. heh cause on this site it said at lv65 or so have a plan when going in and at lv70+ use common sense when fighting lol.

[jebe]

eh, sorry. newb question. can the astral flow ability be used by itself to inflict beaucoup dmg to mob or only useable on avatars?