Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
Personally I like the mix of both the summon and Summoner doing equal work but if it's not anyone's style then XIV's SMN is simply not for you.
Diehards used to say the same with mcn "if you don't like it, its not for you, don't play it", but a little listening to player feedback and then actually thinking the job through and look how much better it is now. Just because it is good for you, does not mean it is good. If it were we wouldn't be having this conversation again and again and again on these forums.

Egi are easy to manage because there is very little to manage...for me. I find the amount of reliance on pets abysmal...for me. That doesn't mean that smn is bad, just that my opinion of it is bad. But the overwhelming amount of negative feedback and criticism it gets, does. And I think the xiv could do good, taking a page out of XI's book. Or IV's, or X's. But that is my opinion. They could put a whole new spin on it but if pets are a fraction of a fraction of the job, or handled via ogc as a secondary thing, its never going to be seen as a smn and will be judged negatively because of that. If brd was a ranger it likely wouldn't get the criticism it does. But since the theme is brd, it's being torn apart.