Why Make Jobs useless ?

[Alhanelem]

They don't "make jobs useless." The community decides that. Summoner isn't useless, it just overlaps with specialists, which makes them picked only when the specialist isn't avialable; it also doesn't have enough about it that is unique that can be put to good use on a consistent basis.

Also they err too heavily on the side of caution with pet jobs for fear of making them too powerful, as pets automatically have many inherent advantages. PUP eventually did become a pretty decent DD, BST has gotten better, as has DRG, SMN has only gotten sidegrades (e.g. new stuff that's cool but doesn't really increase its power much) and niche powers (e.g. 2hour summons). Splitting BP attacks and non-attacks to seperate timers was nice, but it wasn't enough- SMN is always playing catch up. As much as I disagree with some people about how inferior it is, it really does need some love.