Summoner a new form of summoning in 4.0

[Senliten]

Ah, what?

I'm not trying to start any argument or what not, I'm simply stating my feelings on pet classes in general. As of late, practically every game that is labeled as a "pet" class, the pets end up being super lackluster in terms of raw damage. They more so end up being just another "DoT" and the player ends up doing a bulk of the damage which befuddles me because a class that is a Pet class, the pets should be doing a lot of damage instead of just some mediocre dot damage. It's kind of logical no? that a pet class, the pets should do a lot no? Sorry, I just played a real pet class in Everquest with the Mage and their pets blow anything and everything away in terms of these iteration of pet classes in mmo's for the past 10 years or so.

Mages only began truly being able to do that sort of thing when the AA system arrived however. Before then it was just sit/stay/guard and OH LOOK MASTER IS GETTING HIT! *ignore commands and run to npc and wail on it like a mindless potato*
Not to mention EQ is more core than compared to XIV which is fairly casual, raiding aside of course. That, and i only bolded the aforementioned because it's been beaten to a dead horse with fairly even more logical reasons for this day and age than back when seeing a earth elemental tank two orcs in crushbone was the most badass thing to see.

If we honestly wanted to go with comparisons on pet classes, SMN is more necro than mage. Yet both mage and necro are labeled a pet type class in some form. One just uses it more heavily. What it comes down to is a persons own opinion on just what a pet class should be. Which i'll let the search function do the talking for me in regards to that.