Quote Originally Posted by TritonRM View Post
Well every since the pre-P4 announce of Arcanist being in. It was always my plan to play one. So here it is EA over, game launch. My Summoner is 50. Done all my story quest. What I am finding out though is that Summoner/Arcanist is probably going to end up as an unwanted job for some of the dungeons.

Now before anyone thinks this is a complaint or whining about Summoner DPS. It isn't. It's just that shortly after getting to 50. I decided to run that one dungeon for the Grand Company promotion. I can't remember the name it was like A something. But the whole dungeon seems to be a DPS race from what I'm told.
Summoner is the only DPS that can res in combat, it provides nearly 100% uptime slow on bosses that doesn't seem to be effected by DR(I think), 15 seconds of blind every ~30 seconds, 20% damage reduction for 30 seconds every 3 minutes and 15% mnd/str/dex/int to bosses every ~45 seconds while also providing excellent damage with DOT's and amazing spread damage with bane.

The class is great, it does great damage and brings unique support no other DPS can bring, having 1 summoner for 8 mans is incredibly nice for learning new counters because it's the only DPS that can res healers.