Why are summoners so neglected?

[Silkerin]

I kinda feel like they could remove Egi as pets completely...

to remove egis they would need then to introduce in the same expansion an actual pet job, which, it seems wont ever happen because they are afraid people will be bad with it.

and i doubt they would ever rework a class so much again like they did with warrior

[Nalien]

to remove egis they would need then to introduce in the same expansion an actual pet job, which, it seems wont ever happen because they are afraid people will be bad with it.

Hey! We still have Scholar and (to a far lesser degree) Machinist!

But yeah, like I said, too much work to bother with really, best bet is hoping they rebalance the pets to have clearly defined roles... Do hope they'll eventually give us more pet Jobs though... We finally have three Jobs for every stat (bar Piety), I need a Vitality Pet Job and Strength Pet Job to be satisfied at this point... Beastmaster could make a nice tank, with the pet doubling as MT/OT stance, having the Beastmaster tank with the pet getting stuff like Cover for mitigation... Not sure about a Strength Job though... Strength based Necromancer? Might be too similar in theme to Dark Knight, but also might satisfy those who wanted DPS Dark Knight... Perfect for a Scythe wielding Job really...