SMN poorly implemented

[Akiza]

Summoner is not a pet job it was orginally a Black Mage that decided to focus on the art of summoning which is how Summoners were born. To make it more of a Summoner SE would have to give us the ability to transform into a unique God/Goddesss embodying Hydealyn in order to keep in line with the lore.

[Azuta]

Summoner is not a pet job it was orginally a Black Mage that decided to focus on the art of summoning which is how Summoners were born. To make it more of a Summoner SE would have to give us the ability to transform into a unique God/Goddesss embodying Hydealyn in order to keep in line with the lore.

The thing is there is never a time in the summoner storyline in XIV where they say what the mages were. They were just allagan mages that were able to summon primals and then discovered an art to transmute there essence into egi versions. So we don't know if the allagan mages were black mages,white mages or neither of the above.

In final fantasy III where summoning was first used. The black mage came from the wind crystal and the evoker class that turns to summoner from the water crystal. Adding to that the sage class in III was a master mage and used every type of magic black,white and summoning. So it was more an advanced red mage then a black mage.

[Dualblade]

Summoner is not a pet job it was orginally a Black Mage that decided to focus on the art of summoning which is how Summoners were born. To make it more of a Summoner SE would have to give us the ability to transform into a unique God/Goddesss embodying Hydealyn in order to keep in line with the lore.

In a way both X and XII summons were basically a pet class. In X's case a very OP one except for certain battles (and even then it had enough time to do the original version of "giant attack animation"), while XII was toned down a bit from that and basically always on Sic.

[Nestama]

In a way both X and XII summons were basically a pet class. In X's case a very OP one except for certain battles (and even then it had enough time to do the original version of "giant attack animation"), while XII was toned down a bit from that and basically always on Sic.

Unless you played the Zodiac Job System, then you could play as the Summon and could freely use their Astral Flow.

[Dualblade]

Unless you played the Zodiac Job System, then you could play as the Summon and could freely use their Astral Flow.

TO be fair not everyone can play the International Version. Not legally anyways.