Summoner is the most fun, highest DPS and awesome side-support job.

[Kalandros]

Unless I've missed a stealth hotfix to the combat log, you can't actually back this up. Parsers (both of them) are necessarily inaccurate because the combat log is junk and omits things. No one *actually* knows what the highest DPS class is.

Easily. We did tests with the dummies and parsers. Just the summoner doing damage. Shadowflare, Bio II and Bio I were completely ignored by the parser, that's a good chunk of our DPS right there being ignored and a SMN still pulled solo DPS equal to or higher than solo BRD or solo BLM on the lv50 dummies (equally geared).

Plus the extremely powerful synergy with foe's requiem as it affects any MAGIC class damage (including Garuda - all her attacks count as Magic class, Ifrit counts as physical class) makes you a powerhouse for reliable sustainable DPS throughout a fight.