Quote Originally Posted by Bigcat9715 View Post
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Um. No?

SCH comes with 0 abilties which affect the summon, where as SMN has 2 (Spur and Enkindle). Both jobs are at their best when micromanaging the pet and suck without one. You're only pointing out the fact that SCH is a healer, so it suffers with no fairy. SMN also suffers when there is no pet present in the terms of a decent DPS loss. This can be easily seen by anyone who runs a parser, claiming the pet isn't a good source of DPS is pretty laughable really. Nothing changes in the expansion except now they have to juggle Bahamut stacks as well as their usual stuff, on top of DoT/pet damage running off of SpS which is a decent buff in itself.

Hard to say SMN isn't about the pet when 2/5 abilities in the game thus far buff the pet, the fact that you are basically channeling Bahamut (Look, more Summoner lore abilities), on top of Spellspeed buffing pet damage in Heavensward for the job. You even have to juggle two pets based on the fight. (Good Summoners do, which is what we should be basing this on)

I fail to see why you people are complaining.