A Beginner's Guide to ARCANIST/SUMMONER | FFXIV 

I like this game it is a little overwhelming. I am a 64-year-old player Your tutorial is the first one that I’ve watched that I understand so thank you

Thank you for making this! I couldn't find a good Arcanist/Summoner guide, but glad this popped into my feed!

Just started leveling summoner, thanks for the amazing guides!

Thank you for this! I haven't played since 2021 and nothing in my cast bars made the slightest sense to me when I logged in today. 😅

This was so not complicated... Everywhere else said that summoner was complex and that's why people didn't play it. The fact that you started at level 15 and then went up from there makes a world of difference to understanding the class. Everything else that I've seen has been opinions or a level 90 summoner. Simplest and easiest to understand rotation for any class that I've yet seen. I am a new player and didn't like summoner until I saw some opinions about it. And this guide pretty much solidified it for me. 😊

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!! I just recently started playing, still on free trial (though do plan to buy later) and needed a guide that covers what I can use QQ I already had a grasp of how summoner worked, but I wasn't sure if I was doing things right and wanted to learn more. This was so useful and reassuring! Thank you!

Thank you very much ! This video helped me validate the rotation I had, even as a veteran player. Keep up the good content !

You're good at this, it's refreshing to find a guide that doesn't leave me more confused. Can't stress this enough so I'll just say this, people think they need to keep things fresh after doing this for a long time but simplicity supersedes all that when you do it right. So don't change, you got a recipe for lasting success, hope to see you in more games.

This was exactly the video I needed (the boys have recently convinced me to jump back into FFXIV), and the timing is impeccable; this was very easy to digest, enjoyable, and has me much more excited about jumping back into the game. Thank you for making this. 💜 It ain't much, but you have my sub. 🥰

Thank you so much this was exactly what I needed. I am new to the game and the abilities were completely confusing me and most guides are focused on the end game.

Thank you soooooo much! I've been tanking but was really interested in trying out scholar as I love mit style healing too. I picked up the class the other day, and by lvl 10 I felt so confused. It's not even that the rotation is hard, but all the abilities and moves kinda felt like word salad and I couldn't wrap my head around all the multiple guages and stuff. This guide made it instantly understandable, especially with the rotation examples :D

Very nice video! Super easy to understand

This video was so helpful! Very cool to see other older players commenting here as well. I'm 53 and struggle a little with grasping the game play and concepts, so precise videos like this are key to learning to enjoy the game!

Nice video, only recommendation would be to use the icon for the hunt log rather than an image of a mob to help avoid confusion. I look forward to the 50-90/100 in the future. 👍

This is a very good bare bones introduction to the class I was looking for something i could share with a friend who wants to play the game but she's not big on mechanically challenging game play and this is exactly what she needs.

Thanks for the video very helpful 😊

Thank you, helped a lot just started playing on Xbox. Very helpful and understandable lol

Last time played SMN before Endwalker, and now by switching on it (80lvl) was absolutely confused. In the end Iv just emptied all bars and reassembled them from scratch, this video helped too, thanks!

this was very helpful n ive realized how easy it was playing lancer/dragoon b4 TT _ TT (i wanted to play arcanist for scholar/healing role option tho)

Great video explained very simple thank you helped a lot

that is so helpful, thank you

after a like 2 year hiatus from this game exactly what i needed!! (i looked at my scholar and red mage and paladin like "NOPE" when wanting to get my hotbars rebuilt and feet wet in dailies again LOL)

Thanks, my arcanist lalafell is grateful for this guide!

This REALLY helped me. First time playing FFXIV and I definitely didn't' know what I was doing when I first started. This video helped me out a TON. Thank You!🙏

Perfect guide. I’m returning after a long absence. Haven’t played since shadow bringers launch. Very excited to come back

I started playing the game a couple days ago and arcanist(summoner soon) has been the first class I've chosen. This does a very good job at explaining how the class works and how to play it from the earlier levels, it has already been quite helpful for me in game.

This is. everything I needed. thank you so sosososososo much ;-; not sure if you're open to requests but I'd love a dragoon one... just finished ARR and am kinda using just 3 abilities :/ I feel like whenever I do Duty Finder I'm not being very nice to my teammates ;;

Brand new player, but I'm already at lvl 49, and I just now did the summoner quests. Egi's are weak, but my summoner lvling just started. I'm really looking forward to high lvl summons

As it turns out ive been doing it correct. Thanks for confirming.

What are your key binds and layout they look so useful- im just pressing the spells with my mouse without movement

Thanks you so much for making this! I love your idiots guide series, but it’s just way too fast for me to process all that info, so I absolutely love the change of pace!

Some sites refer to the use of oGCD moves in between GCD moves as "weaving". Just pointing this out in case anyone comes across this in other guides.

I only have one charge of fester after energy drain. does this improve later im assuming? like i do my ruin, my energy drain, 2 festers, ruin, but then i don't have anymore festers to cast

Whenever I cover for an summoner I’m tempted to yell *STAY AWAY FROM THE SUMMONER*

Do you still use fester if there’s only one enemy or use pain flare?

Arcanist may have a lot of buttons, but it's super intuitive on what to press.

You need your MSQ at level 20 ( Sylph Management ) as well as completing your Arcanist quests up to level 30, before you can get your Summoner soul stone. That's important to note.

what materia and stats would you recommend for Arcanist and then what would you recommend on Summoner. I try to look it up and ask groups and i get nothing except 'Wait until you are max level" I like overkill, I want to take and use every advantage i can get.

I like to chain regular ruin with the instant topaz/emerald ruins

Are you gonna do an idiot's guide for the new classes when they come out?

I went looking for a video like this as I just started summoner and I thought "No way its this easy, I must be doing something wrong." Turns out, nope. Rotations are exactly as I thought they were.

Megastar: physic becomes pretty useless Me: ah not the trolling type i see lol

Thanks but I’m a bit confused on n how to summon the topaz on controller 🤔

WOOO first comment!!

What happened to bane spell

I always somehow get confused in rotations in ff14 since I’m not able to play it on a pc no more but instead I’m using a handheld Lenovo one I got for Christmas.. I thought it would ease things up and for some things it does but it’s like playing the game for scratch cuz of the lack of mouse and keyboard.. I’m always forced to copy/paste: playing on handheld when I’m doing dungeons or whatever 🤐

So what was the issue with the arcanist to warrant this rework? Feels like the prior version had less mechanics and less of a headache to manage

Completely new to ff14 been 30 years since i played a ff game...whats the top 2 job or builds for fun solo dps survivability getn my feet wet

Make an idiots guide to ocean fishing please

my summoner job does not look like the one as yours at all, why?

...So the summons are tiny foxes...of fucking course, and the Summoner is just a buffing class, because of course it is. All the boxes of fail for a summoning class.

this was too fast of a tutorial

Is this game “p2w”?

It's so sad how they butchered SMN.