Summoner/SMN - Guide | Final Fantasy XIV (Shadowbringers)

Kept you waiting, huh? Oh yes, I did, but the more I hope that you are happy with the result.
All hail to Tsundere Imouto, Eydis Darkbane, Elevation Xx, Fryte Avarise, Myabi Vartengale and Nemekh at The Balance and Akhmorning, who built the foundation for this guide and contributed alot to the Summoner/FFXIV community, thank you all !

And now have fun with the video and keep shooting some Black Mages into the stars. Which means watch the special ending !

and if you struggle with delaying, stick to my "flowing" version of it:

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Music in order of appearance:
Nobuo Uematsu - Beyond The Wasteland (FF7 - Advent Childen), Seymour's Ambition, Between Ordeals (FF10)
Yoko Shimomura - Calmy Traveling, Pain The Universe (Legend Of Mana)
Nobuo Uematsu - Movin (FF8), Fight With Seymour
Yoko Shimomura - Ardyn's Theme I (FF15)
Fazaz Fict - Shooting Stars Cover – Instrumental

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[DesperiusFFXIV]

1:38: job introduction
2:42: gear & stats
4:12: tips & combat system
12:40: "Flow-Disaster" opener
15:58: AoE & Dungeon DPS
17:46: conclusion
19:10: special Ardyn ending (a shooting star, maybe?)

[nemekh]

I appreciate that you reached out to Imouto to verify and go over things for accuracy, however, our materials, some of which you have used in this video directly like the dot cycle image, have been a group effort involving Eydis Darkbane, Elevation Xx, Fryte Avarise, Tsundere Imouto, Miyabi Vartengale and I over at The Balance and Akhmorning. I'm not asking for myself, but for the others who put in so much effort and are never named please at least mention them.

[riknar]

That outro xD, you did very well! Thanks for sharing that comprehensive overview. Can't wait for the written version of sensei Tsundere guide.

[cailee]

Love your guides -- so much fun to watch as well as being informative! I particularly love how you get your character to be so expressive. Great work!

[jaajames]

I want to play summoner, but this 2 minute rotation is going over my head and I can't remember everything I need to be doing

[jrtime]

My favorite caster class because of its flexibility. May as well look into this guide being that the summoner is my primary DPS.

[DevinGaughan]

I'm a SMN main and I'm trying to push my DPS output to the max limit for Eden Savage right now, so I'm looking anywhere and everywhere for tips that I may not already know. This video was really clear and made some great observations that I will put into practice going forward. Thank you for this guide and the tips. Keep up the awesome contributions to the Summoner community!

[KeitaroU]

Amazing! These have been super enlightening since I haven’t really touched SUM since HW and it’s less intimidating than I thought. Looking to practice a crapton with these tips! Thank you again!!!

Also, the intro is amazing and I nearly died during the outro. Gotta love our insane villains!

[CyframerEX]

I would love a dummy or a full rotation overview with everything lined up! Otherwise, good video. :)

[AndrewNajash]

Thank you so much for making these guides they are absolutely amazing. The intros are awesome as well.

[Ariancia.Thystarian]

As a main summoner this breakdown is really interesting... I had picked up some of this on my own but I think I been a bit to aggressive with the ocds and not put them in the right order. Thanks for the breakdown!

[luthorism]

YESSS, i've been waiting!! I'm so happyyy!

[Salubrious]

I’ve just downloaded the demo for this game and I can assure you this isn’t very “beginner” friendly!.... so many abbreviations and the video doesn’t really show what the character is doing as there is so much going on! :(

[DominicFalcon]

Came for the intro, stayed for the outro.

[tangomcphearson]

I am a beginner Summoner, and also very new to FFXIV. Please forgive me, but I don't understand most of what you talked about. I don't understand what "Stances"are, I don't understand what OCDs are? I don't know how to set up my skills on my hotbar - I feel even more lost now =(

[TheExtendedMetaphor]

Lovely video, thank you! It’s encouraging that I was already doing some of this right but it’s good to see where I need to improve!

[MiddayBalloon]

Man, this popping up on my YouTube home page in 2025 really showing how much we've lost 😭

[coolintheshade]

This guide only makes sense if you already know the rotation and how to play the job

[HippeusOmega]

Love these intros to your beginner guides!

[markdias]

Love you guides man, but looking at summoner i still feel overwhelmed and everything ends up a mess if i have to "move". I barely understand practicing on dummy. How can it make sense. Do i need to just level one? I never wanted to waste time just to leave it. Is most of it common sense? How is your hotbar set up to help you?