Quote Originally Posted by Iamapathy View Post
So basically Rydia and Yuna were summoners with additional skills from other jobs, while in Tactics and FFXI summoner was totally pet based class with identity artifact. So it has been 50/50 as far as history concerned between SMN being a pet based job and mixed job. Using this as a reference doesnt favor the mixed SMN class to persist.
Tactics Summoner wasn't a pet class. It was the school of Fancy Black Mage Spell with the odd heal/Buff/Status summon. They where also not that useful due to horrendous cast times, further confounded by the fact you couldn't use them for the Arithmatic/Calculator skill.

Also Eiko Carol and Garnet Til Alexandros where of the mixed type. The White Mage/ Summoner Variety.