Quote Originally Posted by Darkstride View Post
I'm saying the job "Summoner" has been handled in various ways and there isn't a concrete definition of what it is or should be. Not every game has a Summoner and sometimes the summons are simply a spell that anyone can learn or use.

This thread was started with the suggestion that Summoners should be more focused on pet commands rather than the Summoner's personal abilities. I've seen the argument multiple times that XIV's Summoner should be more pet-focused in order to be more like a traditional Final FANTASY summoner. There's nothing "traditional" about it.

If it were implemented in a way to reflect traditional Summoners, then there would be no pets and the job would just have the ability to summon various primal likenesses for individual attacks.
Summoner class is based on the monsters. Not the caster. Subset class the Evoker is generally more inclined to channel Summon monsters powers into their being via trances.

End of discussion.

Players wanted a Pet class. They failed to deliver. The rest is history.