Summoner a new form of summoning in 4.0

[Saggo]

No one is forcing you to play SMN. If you don't like it, don't play it. Quit complaining, it's getting old.

So when I started, I picked ACN. I enjoy pet jobs, I enjoy hybrid jobs; so in 14, ACN appealed to me and a year later I main SMN because of it. Of the jobs available, I currently like SMN the most, and I think it is mechanically sound. But it's not a very good summoner. Our super move Dreadwyrm trance may be mechanically and visually appealing, but telling me I'm summoning Bahamut is like telling BLM they're summoning Ifrit and Shiva because they can cast Fire and Blizzard.

The moral is I can enjoy the job and still be dissatisfied with how SE implemented summoner. Reality isn't so stark as you would have it.

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.

It actually bothers me that they don't do more pet jobs in FFXIV, running the gamut from minion pets to proxy pets or anything inbetween. MCH is... I don't know, it's not, I can't.

My beef with SMN is it's more WoW Warlock than FF Summoner.

[HeavensSword]

It actually bothers me that they don't do more pet jobs in FFXIV, running the gamut from minion pets to proxy pets or anything inbetween. MCH is... I don't know, it's not, I can't.

SE is leery to implement more pet jobs because of FFXI I assume. They had many issues trying to balance them. Don't get me wrong though, I'd love to see Beastmaster again!