Quote Originally Posted by Nalien View Post
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I feel like Summoner's ties with Arcanist is fine. Like most Job's ties with their Class, FFXIV's version of Summoner has the same concept of an Arcanist, in which the mainpulate Aetheric energies to form a familiar. Summoners can go to higher lengths and transform a primal's essence into a summon.
As to why they use debilitating spells is beyond me, it's better than nothing. Summoners from past FF games aren't really that different from a Black Mage (with their attacks) aside from having the ability to summon, in which those summons does a flashy special attack and then vanish.

Although, I'd like to have more Egis, or Egi-glamour but for them to be unique from each other, with different skills, and do much more than the 4 abilities they have right now (and maybe give better models. The Egis just look so tiny, but I don't see that as a bad thing. Though, the primal minions look far more better). As for now, think of our inability to summon more Egis as something like in FF games, where you start with a couple and get to summon them all eventually in the journey.