Why do people want Blue Mage in this game?

[NaesakiAshwell]

I am glad you enjoy your poor man's Necromancer. If you envisioned Summoner as a class that enfeebles it's enemies with debilitation's to do 60% of their damage(something a summoner never did ever), relegate their pet to 33% of their damage via auto's, only use each pet for shield or contagion and the occasional Enkindle and primarily rely on using all your base Arcanist skills for the bulk of your damage then by all means "Summoner" was quite the success I must say.

I'd talk about Dark Knight but me and Tanathya would be here for a week. TLDR Dark Knight is primarily a DRK in name only. It works as a Tank class but it could have been executed so much better.

You act like a job can't ever be reinvented to suit the game and world its in, it fits in fine with the scope of the game. You are forgetting what Summoner builds off in the first place and I do hope in future expansions the new abilities Summoner get are more orientated towards the pet and honestly I am quite saddened at the fact we aren't getting new egi's any time soon with different abilities only glamours instead

Other than summoning Eidolons, Summoner didn't really have any other tricks up it sleeve. It either piggybacked off black mage or white mage, so they had to give it a kit in some form. I mean I would have liked it if they worked in tandom and all their spells reflected the egi that was summoned but it didn't and I doubt they'll ever rebuild the class from scratch, so yes I'm happy with what we've received because the heart of the class is still there.

Would I like SE to stick to tradition? yes, but at the same time I don't mind them pulling off a re-inventive spin.

However...as for Dark Knight...well.. Honestly I'd love to hear what you have to say about Dark Knight because I do agree with you that it could have been so much more than it is, the core theme is there and the storyline fits it to a tee but it just really felt like they had samurai all planned out and then threw out their excuse of "Oh we don't want to do another far east job so soon." and then put a flimsy Dark Knight shell over it.