Quote Originally Posted by Dyvid View Post
Last time I checked Rydia could cast Poison and Virus. Summoners could cast Chocobo, Golem, Cait Sith, Goblin, and yes even Fairy. Tear it all away and you get a simple truth, Summoner calls forth monster to aid them in battle. How they do it has varied from game to game.

Yoshi-P approved of FFXIV SMN so does that make them "True Summoners?" No because there is no true Job, because the father of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, made it a point to make each game different from the last and just retain iconic features.
On your poison and virus comment: Wait, were you just arguing about how the DoTs are fine like Eloah was? I think we all need to be clearer with each other haha because I have no issue with the DoTs, they just poorly implemented the Summons and thus SMN doesn't retain its "Iconic Features" to me.