[Pole] Do you want to see the summoner class reworked?

[BloodPact]

I know EVERYONE hates it when someone brings up XI in this forum, but Summoner in XI WAS a Single Player Iteration; they were 100% self reliant! However, they really shown when they grouped up via their Summons Buffs/debuffs for their party. They had actions themselves they could cast, most were cross class skills via SubJob, but they also were totally in micromanagement of their summon; every Primal had a physical autoattack, "Gust Slash" would be exicuted via Player Command. Summoner was the Ultimate Pet Class in XI, but it was useless unless the PLAYER was doing their job!
physical attack of a primal at cap was only like 1% of any regular hit; no using their abilities meant you'd be kicked from party faster then you could summon a different primal.

First, Summoner in XI doesn't have a single spell outside of their summons. They can't do anything at all except auto-attack besides the use of Summoning Magic. In XI, you can micromanage the pet like that because of how the battle system works. It's SUPER slow; you basically have like 40 seconds between each Bloodpact (avatar/egi skill). In here you are using a skill every ~3 seconds, there are a lot of stuff you have to be looking for besides your own skills, as battles in this game are not the extremely boring 30 minute tank and spanks that XI endgame provides, you have a lot of AoEs coming at you, tons of adds, a lot of different debuffs attached to attacks that you need to be aware of. It just doesn't compare. The XI version will never work in here, and up until I left in Wings of The Goddess, didn't work in XI as well. Summoner was the "oh well, no White Mage, guess we'll get that Summoner who's been flagged looking for party for 2 hours" job.