New to the game. Do summoners become actual summoners later or in the expansion?

[Cerbs]

A topic frequently talked about in the DPS forum for sure.

I would love to see some changes (not necessarily significant ones), but I'm also not holding my breath.
I'm half-expecting someone to come stampeding in here and say "Summoner is fine the way it is. If you don't like it go back to Dragoon."

Had no idea it was. I barely started playing cause of my love for FF but it was disapointing. I moved to a black mage cause it feels closer to an actual BM.. sadly lighting is a dot for the sake of dots. This game is really making me hate how mmo's water down source material.