Quote Originally Posted by Huntington View Post
I have actually, I tend to use Arcanist more than Summoner because after some checking, even with stat loses because of that Job boost, that my SMN did a little less than my ACN did. You lose some Pet Potency and Intelligence, but I still believe that it's possible for ACN to do a lot of things and do them well even if it's losing out on a few things because of the Job-specific actions. I like the class more than SMN though so maybe I'm biased.
Yeah, you're biased. The loss of gear stats, fester, pet potency, intelligence, spur and enkindle... farrrrrrrrr outweigh the minor things you get from ACN.

ACN - 86080 damage
SMN - 102854 damage

That is with BiS sets for both SMN and ACN. It can't remotely keep up.