I recently decided that I was probably better off soloing as the arcanist rather than stay on the summoner because at least with the acn I had protect and other very useful cross class skills but as a smn I lose most of those and gain my least favorite character model since Hankey, the christmas poo. Oh, and don't forget that Ifrit also sucks in combat. I mean, I lost 1 dot dps skills (aero). Not even scholar loses that. It just seems like a bad trade off because they wanted the summoner to be a pet class so they revolved your new skills around your summons but then they end up sucking and you are weaker than you were before you "advanced" the job.