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

[Edellis]

I think the real issue with summoner came about when they made them summon Egi of the Primals instead of standalone summons, like Carbuncle or the scholar summons. This pretty much prevents them from ever allowing the Egi to be as awesome as the actual Primals they're avatars of.

You can't summon any of the big dogs, Ifrit, Shiva, Titan, Bahamut, ect all have their own personalities and agenda. Summoner should have just used more Eidolon-esque summons from FFXII/Tactics. That way, the class could summon awesome badass nukemachines and not have it conflict with the lore of the game.