summoner should get a do-over

[AlphaFox]

Personally, I feel you could rename the current SMN to a Warlock or Shaman, remove pet and done. Which would keep the job, though the story would need an overhaul and moved over to the new SMN. For me, the issue isn't so much that we can't summon forth giant primals to attack but that our summons are not the main focus and just there not doing even close to the damage we do.

My personal idea would be to increase the size of the egi's or even just copy the primals and shrink them, claim they are only manifestations with a small portion of the real power. Have them stick to us like glue and move as we do, when we do an attack its not us attacking but them. The cast times may need to be removed. Ruin? No if Ifrit is out its a basic claw swipe, Bio is a fire breath. Bane could be the sweeping AoE fire breathe with a dot. Obviously renamed for the primal. This means SMN would possibly have Melee distance as Ifrit wouldn't reach from way in the back, but Garuda could.