Quote Originally Posted by Luvbunny View Post
SMN is not entirely useless in abysea. Sure, most things can be done with a solid group of 3-6 people, and the core group would be whm, a tank (ninja, thief or dancer), blm, with addition of war, blue or bard, and back up tank. Summoner can easily become a back up tank, and a DD. With minikin, ducal and razed ruin (or elemental atma for garuda/leviathan), Summoner can easily become a solid back up tank when the main party wiped - yes it can happen sometimes - and it is nice to know there is another job that can easily hold the NM for a bit while the rest unweakened.
Safety net logic doesn't really help the class because in all actuality you can simply tell your BRD to go zombie w/e you just wiped till the DD/mages are back online.

Atma of the Apocalypse makes anyone a viable stall till you can recover.