Quote Originally Posted by TruebladeNuke View Post
This is the part most people seem to be forgetting about in their constant complaints about how SMNs work in this game. The lore of FFXIV dictates...
Just thought that I'd point out that lore is a terrible reason why the mechanics of a job should suck. The funniest part about Summoner is that if they robbed us of our avatars we'd notice virtually no difference with regards to how the class plays. With the exception of Contagion, there's not a single pet skill which requires any kind of forward planning to use.

Maybe they should just get rid of the Egi's entirely and rename the class to Ravager or something.