Quote Originally Posted by Akiza View Post
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Final Fantasy Tactics - Summoner's gameplay included powerful, very large AoE magic that depleted MP extremely fast and had no way to regenerate MP.

...which basically boils down to the exact same issue you're saying FFXIV's Summoner has, only significantly more skewed. "Okay, I'm going to deal 2x as much damage as a BLM for the first five minutes, aaaaand Ballad plz"