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Kilieit · **03-23-2017, 01:40 PM**

(03-23-2017, 01:27 PM)Jonexe Wrote: Summoning is only possible if you are able to fight and defeat a primal without being tempered, thus requiring the Echo which only select MSQ characters (and you) have. The ancient Allagans created the art, though, so it's possible there are ways around that restriction.

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Slightly off topic nit-picking sorry!!You don't require the Echo to Summon; if I recall correctly, Tristan (your 30-50 rival) doesn't have it. And remember, neither do the Company of Heroes - they lost many of their own men to tempering while defeating Titan. But the survivors would still be eligible to summon Titan-Egi if they wanted to learn.

The only pre-requisite is that you were present at the defeat of (normal or hard mode) Ifrit, Titan, or Garuda. If the Primal didn't attempt to temper you for some reason (it takes special concentration for them to attempt this), then you don't need the Echo to have survived it.

It's still rare, but not because it requires the Echo - more because it's rare to both have encountered the right Primal at a low enough strength, and to have had the personal prowess (or luck) to survive that encounter. Not becoming Tempered is an extra level of chance on top of that, but it's not wholly dependent on having the Echo.

(...if you want to get really technical, then technically any arcanist who was on Eorzea at the time of the Calamity, and is of sufficient skill, could seek out a crystal and train to enter Dreadwyrm Trance, becoming a Summoner that way. But it's the "sufficient skill" part there that's the issue.)

The Echo isn't that rare. (Being a Chosen of Hydaelyn is, but that's a separate thing.) A majority of the random NPCs you see in the Waking Sands - including bandits and novice adventurers - during the early 2.0 MSQ have it. In 1.0, Minfilia described the stack of reports about new Echo users as "a veritable mountain". There are likely hundreds, maybe thousands (especially when you consider that perhaps people beyond Eorzea also gained it) - definitely room for an RP character to be one of them.

What the Echo is is its own unique phenomenon, separate from any school of spellcasting, that deserves its own consideration and development; that's why I'd encourage new RPers to think carefully over whether their character has it or not, not because it's rare.

Red Mages

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