Quote Originally Posted by AreeyaJaidee View Post
By that rule of thumb SMN cannot be a job at all: not even a nonpet job that only casts single instance spells.

So why did SE say SMN would be in FFXIV as a playable job If we cannot control them in any manner?

Your logic seems contradictory
I'm just going with how the lore is. It could be slightly plausible that they would come out to do a single attack in return for the crystals required to bring them into our world momentarily. There's no way they could be pets walking around on leashes for any and all adventurers who feel like it, it's far too subservient for them.

Unless I suppose the summons they're referring to are the Twelve, or at least not the Primals. There are a few belief systems going around in Eorzea, with the Primals being the only ones we've seen manifest.

I just can't see the Primals at least ever obeying much of anything we say, though one or two things here and there is slightly more plausible. Spoiler: Hell even Ifrit gives us orders when we meet him and Leviathan is out there killing people and destroying ships. How would you propose we tame them?

I'm not against having summoner as a class/job as long as it makes sense with the world/story.