i will vote No
and i hope all the one that have voted Yes will read this, because it's need to clarify stuff.
1) do the summoner (the jobs) is a pet class? yes! people misunderstood 2 thing, the first one the skill from the arcanist and the skill from the summoner. you do have 5 skills (7 if you count garuda-egi and titan-egi) 3 of this 5 skill are pure pet oriented!
2) why do the summoner have dot? one more time it's because it come from the arcanist, but more important for allows you to survive if your pet are busy or dead! other point you can't compare a solo game to a mmorpg. you need balance in a mmorpg, if they had put direct damage spell to the summoner they will have been a black mage with pet. other point, the DoT give you a lot of freedom.
3) why the summoner can't be like the one from FF11? one more time for a simple reason of balance, the summoner of FF11 was horrible, the gameplay can work (barely actually) in an old game like FF11 but in a game like FF14 it's not possible.
all of this for say, people stop to compare what can't be compared and try to understand more your class, my two concern about the summoner so far are the cd of enkindle and the look of the egi that look a bit too much crystal.
