Why are summoners so neglected?

[Silverquick]

False Cause circle logic. They made the class PLAYABLE and FUNCTIONAL, especially in a raid environment, allowing it to be competitive. This in turn increased the number of people playing it.

Edit: I felt I should give you a history run down since you started playing recently. Summoner suffered from a very long time period where its issues kept it out of end game content and made it questionable at best for most others.

I do get that, but it also proves my point...

It just shows pretty much directly, the changes they made for Heavensward were successful... this job is popular, powerful and viable now.

And taking some wildly different direction on it is only going to break it.

You are also probably right... its the New Players... like me... who do not see what the Class used to be... we see it for what it is now... ie the reality of the now... not the past.

Heavenward was like god's gift to Summoners.

All we know as new players, is how fun, powerful, and viable this class is now. And probably why my Server... Jenova (A newer server, packed with newer players) is packed full of Summoners as it stands now.

FFXIV quite literally righted the ship in Heavensward.

[NolLacnala]

FFXIV quite literally righted the ship in Heavensward.

I agree that they made the Job functional, the part I disagreed with was

In other words, they made the right decision moving away from Pets.

It's impossible to "move away" from pets when pets were a tiny component of the Job to begin with. If they had a question popup when everyone logged in that asked "are you happy with the pets for SMN" the overwhelming majority would most likely tick no.