"By making pacts with the legendary "avatars," these heretic mages have unlocked the secrets to the forbidden magic of Vana'diel."

—Official Description

See also: Summoner.

Summoner is an advanced job in Final Fantasy XI.

Summoners in this game can summon two types of creatures; Avatars and Elementals. Avatars are creatures like the traditional Summons, but in Final Fantasy XI they are treated as pets. Summoners obtain Carbuncle immediately upon unlocking the Summoner job class. The others must be gained by individual quests. Elementals are simply spirits representing one of the 8 energy types in the game - Earth, Wind, Ice, Fire, Water, Lightning, Dark, and Light - but spirits are mostly thought of as useless since the summoner does not control the use of their abilities. Spirits make up for this fact by being able to cast Ancient Magic respective of their own element.

Summoners can fill a variety of roles. They can create powerful positive status effects for the party, heal the party, impose unique negative effects, and also do damage.

Contents 1 Becoming a Summoner 2 Summoner-related Quests 2.1 Job Unlock Quest 2.2 Artifact Quests 2.3 Job Emote Trial 2.4 Storyline Quests 2.5 Avatar Quests 2.5.1 Alexander 2.5.2 Diabolos 2.5.3 Fenrir 2.5.4 Garuda 2.5.5 Ifrit 2.5.6 Leviathan 2.5.7 Odin 2.5.8 Ramuh 2.5.9 Shiva 2.5.10 Titan 2.6 Weapon Skill Quest 3 Summoner Abilities 3.1 Job Abilities 3.2 Job Traits 4 Summons 4.1 Avatars 4.2 Avatar Commands 4.3 Elementals 5 Blood Pacts 6 Skills 6.1 Combat Skill Ratings 6.2 Magic Skill Ratings 7 Summoner in Final Fantasy XI 7.1 Strengths 7.2 Weaknesses 8 Support Jobs 8.1 White Mage 8.2 Red Mage 8.3 Scholar 8.4 Ninja 9 Other appearances 9.1 Final Fantasy Trading Card Game 10 Gallery

Becoming a SummonerEdit

Upon reaching level 30, a player can accept the quest I Can Hear a Rainbow to become a Summoner. The player must first find a Carbuncle Ruby, a gem dropped by leeches. It is a rare item and can take several hours to find.

After obtaining the ruby, the player must visit the House of the Hero in Windurst Walls and then experience six weather elements (fire, ice, wind, earth, rain, lightning) with the ruby in the inventory. This requires a player to travel to many different areas because weather varies by area. After completing this objective, the player must visit a stone circle in La Theine Plateau to obtain the Summoner Job Class.

Summoner-related QuestsEdit

Job Unlock QuestEdit

• I Can Hear a Rainbow

• Unlocks the Summoner job and the Avatar Carbuncle.

Artifact QuestsEdit

• The Puppet Master

• Quest for Summoner's level 41 Artifact weapon, "Kukulcan's Staff."

• Class Reunion

• Quest for Summoner's level 52 Artifact pants, "Evoker's Spats."

• Borghertz's Calling Hands

• Quest for Summoner's level 56 Artifact gloves, "Evoker's Bracers." Also allows Summoners to find "Evoker's Doublet" in a treasure coffer in theTemple of Uggalepih, and "Evoker's Pigaches" in a treasure coffer hidden in the Toraimarai Canal.

• Class Reunion

• Quest for Summoner's level 60 Artifact horn, "Evoker's Horn."

Job Emote TrialEdit

• Trial 4438

• Magian Trial that augments the level 30 "Evoker's Torque" and grants the ability to summon a chirping chocobo chick through use of an emote command.

Storyline QuestsEdit

• Mama Mia

• Mamaulabion requests "thuper-dee-duper, overflowing with thpethial power itemth". He is referring to items that can be obtained through the avatar's "Trial By..." quests and The Moonlit Path. Once he receives the seven items, he gives the player the extremely powerful level 71 "Evoker's Ring."

• Waking the Beast

• One of the most difficult quests in Final Fantasy XI, this quest challenges players to take on each of the six sleeping gods in their true forms, all assisted by entourages of Elementals, in separate battles, and then challenge Carbuncle Prime in a final bout, in which Carbuncle summons Shiva, Ramuh, Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, Leviathan, and four copies of himself to eradicate the Summoners attempting to halt Carbuncle's scheme to steal the power of the other avatars.

Avatar QuestsEdit

AlexanderEdit

• Waking the Colossus
• Divine Interference

DiabolosEdit

• Waking Dreams

FenrirEdit

• The Moonlit Path

GarudaEdit

• Trial By Wind
• Trial-Size Trial By Wind

IfritEdit

• Trial By Fire
• Trial-Size Trial By Fire

LeviathanEdit

• Trial By Water
• Trial-Size Trial By Water

OdinEdit

• The Rider Cometh
• Unwavering Resolve
• A Stygian Pact

RamuhEdit

• Trial By Lightning
• Trial-Size Trial By Lightning

ShivaEdit

• Trial By Ice
• Trial-Size Trial By Ice

TitanEdit

• Trial By Earth
• Trial-Size Trial By Earth

Weapon Skill QuestEdit

• Unlocking a Myth (Summoner)

• Unlocks the Summoner-only Weapon Skill Garland of Bliss.

Summoner AbilitiesEdit

Job AbilitiesEdit Level  Name 1  Astral Flow 50  Elemental Siphon 87  Mana Cede

Job TraitsEdit Level  Name 10  Max MP Boost 15  Clear Mind 20  Resist Slow 25  Auto Refresh 30  Clear Mind II  Max MP Boost II 40  Resist Slow II 45  Clear Mind III 50  Max MP Boost III 60  Blood Boon  Clear Mind IV  Resist Slow III 70  Clear Mind V  Max MP Boost IV 75  Resist Slow IV 85  Stout Servant 90  Auto Refresh II

SummonsEdit

Avatars can be obtained through various quests that involve defeating the avatar in combat. Elemental Spirits can be obtained either through merchants, or by defeating certain monsters that drop the scrolls (these scrolls can also be bought on the Auction House). Each Avatar/Elemental Spirit has an initial MP cost as well as a perpetuation cost that is based on the SMN's level.

AvatarsEdit Level  Avatar 1  Carbuncle  Fenrir  Ifrit  Titan  Leviathan  Garuda  Shiva  Ramuh  Diabolos 75  Alexander  Odin

Avatar CommandsEdit Level  Command 1  Assault  Blood Pact: Rage  Blood Pact: Ward  Release  Retreat 55  Avatar's Favor

ElementalsEdit Level  Spirit 1  Fire Spirit  Ice Spirit  Air Spirit  Earth Spirit  Thunder Spirit  Water Spirit  Light Spirit  Dark Spirit

Blood PactsEdit

Main article: Blood Pact

Blood Pacts are abilities in Final Fantasy XI used by Avatars controlled by Summoners. There are two types of Blood Pacts: Blood Pact: Rage and Blood Pact: Ward. Rages deal damage, either with spells or with physical damage attacks. Wards provide protective magic, curative magic, or positive or negative status effects for the party or enemy.

SkillsEdit

Combat Skill RatingsEdit  Skill Rank Caps by Level 1 37 45 75 90  Staff B 5 109 132 250 335  Club C+ 5 105 128 230 315  Dagger E 4 94 114 200 255  Evasion E 4 94 114 200 255

Magic Skill RatingsEdit  Magic Rank Caps by Level 1 37 45 75 90  Summoning A- 5 114 138 269 354

Summoner in Final Fantasy XIEdit

StrengthsEdit

• Avatars offer a variety of abilities that can greatly help party members.
• Avatars offer a unique way to pull single creatures from a group, an ability no other job can quite emulate.
• Avatars can do massive damage, particularly with Astral Flow.
• Summoners, through the use of different abilities, can both provide a magic burst as well as participate in a skillchain.
• Because summoners do not take damage directly, and avatars take only a fraction of the damage that players take, a group of avatars from a party or alliance of summoners can get near many deadly foes and either withstand their attacks or die with no severe consequences, as the summoners can just summon more avatars as long as MP remains. This strategy allows enemies like Mocking Colibri, Evil Oscar, and Carbuncle Prime to be beaten, three enemies which are generally not fought by anything other than groups of summoners.

WeaknessesEdit

• Summoners have no spells of their own, which sometimes means they function as a magically weak White Mage with massive amounts of MP.
• At lower levels, avatars are usually poor damage dealers and deplete a Summoner's MP too quickly.
• Summoner's ability to help a party is hampered by recast timers on Blood Pacts.
• Summoners have weak armor and fewer hit points than any other job in Final Fantasy XI.

Support JobsEdit

White MageEdit

While some Summoners use a different support job choice, almost every summoner uses White Mage as their support job, especially at lower levels. This allows them to heal the party, provides them with the ability to remove negative status ailments, and grants them protective magic that will aid them in their role as summoner. SMN/WHM has access to Dia II, which substantially increases the damage of powerful physical blood pacts by weakening the enemy's defense. SMN/WHM can cast Blink, Aquaveil, and Stoneskin, defending the Summoner in the event of an avatar's death, until a new avatar can be summoned. SMN/WHM is also the only job combination granting Summoners Curaga and Teleport spells.

Red MageEdit

As of the September 2010 version update, which raised the level limit to 85, SMN/RDM has access to Refresh at extremely high levels, making Red Mage a viable support job for Summoners at levels 82+. However, in exchange for constant MP restoration / Perpetuation Cost reduction, SMN/RDM sacrifices an extremely long list of useful spells, including all status healing magic and Reraise. However, unlike SMN/SCH, SMN/RDM has access to Dia II, which substantially increases the damage potential of powerful physical blood pacts by weakening the enemy's defense.

ScholarEdit

Scholar has gained immense popularity with summoners, due to the fact it offers both schools of magic, which is similar to support job Red Mage. However, the key differences are Light Arts, Dark Arts, and Stratagems. These abilities increase the Summoner's magic skill to a B+ (calculated from the main job's level rather than the level of the Scholar sub) and reduce the MP cost of White and Black Magic. As such, a 80SMN/40SCH using Dark Arts will have 266 skill in Elemental Magic, Enfeebling Magic, and Dark Magic, making any offensive spells used much less likely to be resisted. Further, under Light Arts, the SMN retains access to healing staples such as Cure III, Raise, and Reraise. This in turn allows the Summoner to deal damage and heal proficiently. Dark Arts and Light Arts also reduce mp costs for relevant magic by 10%, allowing a Summoner to save more MP for their avatars. Finally, the Sublimation ability allows a Summoner to instantly recover a stash of MP that they acquire by taking gradual HP damage. SMN/SCH's greatest sacrifice is no access to Dia II, reducing the damage potential of physical Blood Pacts.

NinjaEdit

Ninja subjob is a handy tool in the solo summoner's arsenal for soloing the deadliest monsters that a summoner can defeat alone. The summoner casts Utsusemi, then sends an avatar in to attack. The summoner then runs away a good distance, only coming close to issue blood pact commands, and when the avatar is killed, the enemy will dash to the summoner. A SMN/WHM will likely be dead or have the summoning interrupted if the monster reaches the summoner before the new avatar is out, but Utsusemi will absorb the enemy's attacks long enough for the new avatar to appear and take hate. The summoner then repeats the process. Summoner/Ninja is usually a solo or duo job combination for notorious monsters or monsters that are higher level than the summoner.

Other appearancesEdit

Final Fantasy Trading Card GameEdit

Summoner appears in Final Fantasy Trading Card Game.

GalleryEdit

v · e · dFinal Fantasy XI Jobs
Basic Jobs
Warrior - Monk - White Mage - Black Mage - Red Mage - Thief
Original Advanced Jobs
Paladin - Dark Knight - Beastmaster - Bard - Ranger - Summoner
Rise of the Zilart Jobs
Samurai - Ninja - Dragoon
Treasures of Aht Urhgan Jobs
Blue Mage - Corsair - Puppetmaster
Wings of the Goddess Jobs
Dancer - Scholar
Seekers of Adoulin Jobs
Geomancer - Rune Fencer