Summoner DPS Rotation, Openers, and Abilities — Endwalker 7.3

This page is dedicated to providing an in-depth analysis of the Summoner rotation.

The core foundation of Summoner's rotation is built upon its Summon actions. Summoner will employ a variety of Primals and Demi-Primals that will make up its rotation structure. These summons include:

• Summon Solar Bahamut
• Summon Bahamut
• Summon Phoenix
• Summon Garuda II
• Summon Ifrit II
• Summon Titan II

The overall rotation structure involves a revolving loop, consisting of a combination of several short "phases". Each phase will generally take up only a few seconds at a time, but pieced together will make up a full 2 minute rotation loop. These phases include:

• Summon Solar Bahamut Phase
• Summon Bahamut Phase
• Summon Phoenix Phase
• Primals Phase → Summon Garuda II, Summon Ifrit II, Summon Titan II

Putting the rotation together however will see each Demi-Primal (Solar-Bahamut, Demi-Bahamut, and Demi-Phoenix) paired with their own Primals Phase, as each Summon command will provide Emerald, Ruby, and Topaz Arcanum. As such, the overall rotation flow will be this:

1. Summon Solar Bahamut
2. Primals Phase → Summon Garuda II, Summon Ifrit II, Summon Titan II (in any order)
3. Summon Bahamut
4. Primals Phase → Summon Garuda II, Summon Ifrit II, Summon Titan II (in any order)
5. Summon Solar Bahamut
6. Primals Phase → Summon Garuda II, Summon Ifrit II, Summon Titan II (in any order)
7. Summon Phoenix

The opener presented below is a general-purpose opener that can be safely used for all endgame content.

Solar Bahamut Phase

1. Precast Ruin III
2. Summon Solar Bahamut → Grade 8 Tincture of Intelligence
3. Umbral Impulse → Searing Light
4. Umbral Impulse
5. Umbral Impulse → Energy Drain
6. Umbral Impulse → Enkindle Solar Bahamut + Necrotize
7. Umbral Impulse → Sunflare + Necrotize
8. Umbral Impulse → Searing Flash

Primals Phase

1. Summon Titan II
2. Topaz Rite → Mountain Buster
3. Topaz Rite → Mountain Buster
4. Topaz Rite → Mountain Buster
5. Topaz Rite → Mountain Buster
6. Summon Garuda II
7. Slipstream
8. Emerald Rite
9. Emerald Rite
10. Emerald Rite
11. Emerald Rite

Including the opening sequence labeled above, Summon Solar Bahamut will always be the first phase for each rotation loop. Upon activating Summon Solar Bahamut, you will be provided with the following effects:

• Solar-Bahamut spawns for 15 seconds
• Ruin III changes to Umbral Impulse
• Tri-disaster changes to Umbral Flare
• Astral Flow changes to Sunflare
• Enkindle Solar Bahamut becomes available
• Grants Ruby Arcanum, Topaz Arcanum, and Emerald Arcanum

During the duration of your Solar-Bahamut phase, you will utilize the unique actions provided to you, with Umbral Impulse used for single-target damage, while Umbral Flare will be used for multi-target scenarios. You will also receive Sunflare and Enkindle Solar Bahamut as additional oGCDs that should be weaved during each Bahamut duration.

While Solar-Bahamut is out, he will periodically cast its auto-attack Luxwave. Due to the Summoner rework changes in Endwalker, this interaction is now completely automatic once you initiate any attack (any GCD or oGCD) on your target.

You should be aiming to cast a total of SIX Umbral GCDs during each Solar Bahamut duration. While seven GCDs is theoretically possible, this requires a GCD of at least 2.13 seconds (or faster) to do consistently.

You should prioritize using Summon Solar Bahamut whenever the cooldown becomes available to you, and try to avoid drifting this cooldown at all costs. Activating Summon Solar Bahamut will also provide you with elemental arcanum, allowing you to summon powerful primal pets after the Solar-Bahamut duration has finished.

Upon activating Summon Bahamut, you will be provided with the following effects:

• Demi-Bahamut spawns for 15 seconds
• Ruin III changes to Astral Impulse
• Tri-disaster changes to Astral Flare
• Astral Flow changes to Deathflare
• Enkindle Bahamut becomes available
• Grants Ruby Arcanum, Topaz Arcanum, and Emerald Arcanum

During the duration of your Bahamut phase, you will utilize the unique actions provided to you, with Astral Impulse used for single-target damage, while Astral Flare will be used for multi-target scenarios. You will also receive Deathflare and Enkindle Bahamut as additional oGCDs that should be weaved during each Bahamut duration.

While Demi-Bahamut is out, he will periodically cast his auto-attack Wyrmwave. Due to the Summoner rework changes in Endwalker, this interaction is now completely automatic once you initiate any attack (any GCD or oGCD) on your target.

You should be aiming to cast a total of SIX Astral GCDs during each Demi-Bahamut duration. While seven GCDs is theoretically possible, this requires a GCD of at least 2.13 seconds (or faster) to do consistently.

You should prioritize using Summon Bahamut whenever the cooldown becomes available to you, and try to avoid drifting this cooldown at all costs. Activating Summon Bahamut will also provide you with elemental arcanum, allowing you to summon powerful primal pets after the Demi-Bahamut duration has finished.

After the duration of Summon Bahamut finishes, your Dreadwyrm Trance button will change to Firebird Trance. When Firebird Trance is activated, you will be provided with the following effects:

• Demi-Phoenix spawns for 15 seconds
• Ruin III changes to Fountain of Fire
• Tri-disaster changes to Brand of Purgatory
• Astral Flow changes to Rekindle
• Enkindle Phoenix becomes available
• Grants Ruby Arcanum, Topaz Arcanum, and Emerald Arcanum

During the duration of your Demi-Phoenix phase, you will utilize the unique actions provided to you, with Fountain of Fire used for single-target damage, while Brand of Purgatory will be used for multi-target scenarios. You will also receive Enkindle Phoenix as an additional oGCD that should be weaved during each Demi-Phoenix duration.

Demi-Phoenix also provides an interesting unique ability with Rekindle. Rekindle is an oGCD that originates from Astral Flow, applying a buff status to a targeted player. This buff status will later apply a healing-over-time effect onto the player for a considerable amount of healing. This oGCD should be used as much as possible, as it provides a free heal worth up to 1200 healing potency.

While Demi-Phoenix is out, she will periodically cast her auto-attack Scarlet Flame. Due to the Summoner rework changes in Endwalker, this interaction is now completely automatic once you initiate any attack (any GCD or oGCD) on your target.

You should be aiming to cast a total of SIX Fountain or Brand GCDs during each Demi-Phoenix duration. While seven GCDs is theoretically possible, this requires a GCD of at least 2.13 seconds (or faster) to do.

You should prioritize using Summon Phoenix whenever the cooldown becomes available to you and try to avoid drifting this cooldown at all costs. Activating Summon Phoenix will also provide you with elemental arcanum, allowing you to summon powerful primal pets after the Demi-Phoenix duration has finished.

After each demi-primal has finished, you will have elemental arcanum available corresponding to each primal pet at your disposal:

• Ruby Arcanum → Summon Ifrit II
• Topaz Arcanum → Summon Titan II
• Emerald Arcanum → Summon Garuda II

When each primal pet is summoned, the primal will cast its signature ultimate ability, while then providing you with elemental attunement stacks to be used to cast primal-specific abilities. Along with this, each primal also provides a unique buff, transforming your Astral Flow into another unique ability as well.

During each primal summon, your priority is to utilize all of their abilities as much as possible. This means you should try to consume ALL of your elemental attunement stacks, as well as each primal-specific buff that provides an additional specific action. The only exception to this priority is if your Summon Solar Bahamut, Summon Bahamut, or Summon Phoenix are coming off cooldown before you can utilize all of your primal abilities, and in this scenario you should skip the remainder of your primal(s).

Outside of the opening sequence, the use of your primals is liberal, meaning you may use your primals in ANY order. This means there is no static order that you should always follow, and in many cases, should choose based on comfort around fight-specific timings such as boss mechanics for uptime purposes.

Primals also have the freedom of being used before consuming the previous set of attunement stacks. This means you also have the option of "shortening" a primal phase if needed. This is generally only done in very specific cases, such as attempting to resolve another primal ultimate before a designated kill time.

When Ifrit-Egi is summoned, the following effects will occur:

• Ifrit-Egi will cast Inferno
• Gemshine will change to Ruby Rite
• Precious Brilliance will change to Ruby Catastrophe
• Astral Flow will change to Crimson Cyclone → Crimson Strike

Ruby Rite and Ruby Catastrophe follow the binary "single-target" and "multi-target" design model and consume your Fire attunement stacks. These GCDs have long cast times of 2.8 seconds at base spell speed value.

Crimson Cyclone and Crimson Strike act as a 1-2 melee combo, and upon use, consumes the Ifrit's Favor buff. As of Patch 7.1, the Crimson Cyclone and Crimson Strike combo have been adjusted, allowing the player to cast differing actions in between completing this combo.

As Ifrit's GCDs requires you to either be in melee range, or resolve prolonged cast times, this primal phase will be your most vulnerable to disruption due to movement or boss mechanics that may make GCD uptime difficult. You should generally prioritize using Summon Ifrit II whenever you know you will have a chunk of time to resolve all of these abilities safely.

When Titan-Egi is summoned, the following effects will occur:

• Titan-Egi will cast Earthen Fury
• Gemshine will change to Topaz Rite
• Precious Brilliance will change to Topaz Catastrophe
• Astral Flow will change to Mountain Buster
• Provides you with 4x Earth Attunement stacks

Topaz Rite and Topaz Catastrophe follow the binary "single-target" and "multi-target" design model and consume your Earth attunement stacks. These GCDs are instant-cast.

Mountain Buster is an oGCD proc that is made available upon each consumed Earth attunement stack from the Titan's Favor buff. This means you will receive a proc each time you cast Topaz Rite or Topaz Catastrophe, and you should weave each proc whenever you gain one.

With Topaz GCDs being instant-cast, this primal phase should be quite simple to execute, as you will have full freedom to cast and move whenever needed. Titan is also the strongest primal phase in terms of overall potency, meaning it will generally be prioritized around raid buff windows whenever possible.

When Garuda-Egi is summoned, the following effects will occur:

• Garuda-Egi will cast Aerial Blast
• Gemshine will change to Emerald Rite
• Precious Brilliance will change to Emerald Catastrophe
• Astral Flow will change to Slipstream
• Provides you with 4x Wind Attunement stacks

Emerald Rite and Emerald Catastrophe follow the binary "single-target" and "multi-target" design model and consume your Wind attunement stacks. These GCDs are instant-cast and have shortened recast times of 1.5 seconds.

Slipstream is a unique GCD that is made available from the Garuda's Favor buff. Slipstream has a prolonged cast time of 3 seconds, with a 3.5 second recast time.

With Emerald GCDs being instant-cast, this primal phase should generally be simple to execute. However, Slipstream will enforce a similar vulnerability to Ifrit, as the prolonged cast time will require you to find a suitable time to cast for 3 seconds. These GCDs may be cast in any order.

Every two minutes (120 seconds), your Searing Light damage buff will become available to be cast again. Alongside of your Searing Light buff, any other raid buffs from other party members should also become available at this time as well. For these windows, you will want to align as much potency as possible for maximizing damage gains.

Accomplishing this will generally be quite easy for Summoner, as low spell speed BiS will ensure your full rotation loop will maintain alignment with 120 second windows. You will generally have Summon Solar Bahamut aligned for your Searing Light, assuming you are fighting a full uptime boss. However this could be changed if the encounter includes any sort of downtime, but this means you should be aiming to align your Summon Bahamut or Summon Phoenix under those circumstances.

Alongside of keeping your Demi-Primals aligned, you should also aim to align as much Aetherflow Gauge for your Searing Light buff as well. This means with every other Energy Drain usage, you should hold your Necrotize charges for the next buff window, aligning a total of FOUR Necrotize casts under buffs.

The use of Ruin III should be minimized as much as possible, down to a minimum of one cast per rotation cycle. This is possible as the durations of your demi-primals and primal summons will make up nearly all of your total rotation loop, leaving you with only two GCDs to utilize your Ruin GCDs if executed perfectly.

Each Ruin IV proc should be used before entering your next demi-primal phase.

The timing of when you use your Ruin III and Ruin IV casts is not specific, as you can technically use these abilities during your primal summons. This means you may utilize Ruins to act as a buffer during your primals (for example, casting Ruin IV during Ifrit if you need an instant-cast GCD to move but cannot be in melee range to use your Crimson combo), or you can just wait until all of your primals are finished.

Depending on the amount of spell speed you may be playing with, you may encounter situations where you will need an additional Ruin III to weave Searing Light before your next Summon Bahamut window.

In multi-target scenarios, Summoner provides a high amount of cleave damage throughout each individual rotation phase. When fighting three or more enemies, your GCD and oGCD priorities will change as such:

Tri-disaster should be used in place of Ruin III.

Painflare should be used in place of Necrotize to spend your Aetherflow gauge.

• Umbral Flare should be used in place of Umbral Impulse
• Enkindle Solar Bahamut and Sunflare should be aligned to maximize cleave damage output

• Astral Flare should be used in place of Astral Impulse
• Enkindle Bahamut and Deathflare should be aligned to maximize cleave damage output

• Brand of Purgatory should be used in place of Fountain of Fire
• Enkindle Phoenix should be aligned to maximize cleave damage output

Your Precious Brilliance GCDs ( Ruby Catastrophe, Topaz Catastrophe, and Emerald Catastrophe) should be used in place of their Gemshine actions to spend your elemental attunements stacks.