Why are summoners so neglected?

[Kazrah]

Gotcha. My apologies then, but yes, SMN pets in XIV need to be more responsive.

So that lack of responsiveness is because the AI setup for the egis places their auto-attack as top priority. Basically Garuda-egi makes you look like a loser for a few seconds because it HAS to get off that Wind Blade cast before it feels like doing whatever you told it to do since finishing that auto-cast is higher priority in its ability queue than any other direct command. Same case for SCH fairies, which put an Embrace cast at higher priority over any manually-input commands or move.

Until direct pet commands can instantly cancel a pet's auto-cast, SCH and SMN pets will continue to suffer in terms of responsiveness. However, MCH turrets don't suffer this problem because they don't come with any actual attack commands.