Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
Not that I don't like it being a pet job, but I do like the direction SMN is going with Trances and Demi.

That and there's really no point in a healing pet. Play SCH for that, and a tank pet is counteracts Demi summon and was largely ineffective or outright useless ever since 2.x. To me the new Titan is more than welcome.

And I have to disagree, it's more of a Summoner than it is back then, with a more promising approach like Trances and Demi that I hope they continue in the next expansion.
I will have to agree to disagree. It's a fecking PET job - so it has to mean something to BE a pet job because the whole point of the job ARE ABOUT PETS helping you do damage. That's the very definition of what a summoner IS. You may as well have Yoshi P/SE just get rid of the normal pets and turn the job into a straight up caster 90% of the time and just summon Bahamut/Phoenix for the "big guns" instead ala Machinist. Like I said before: how it plays now is beyond what it's supposed to be in the game's lore, so basically they broke their own dang lore by turning summoners into something isn't anymore. It's why I much prefer Red Mage and Scholar these days - both have solo survivability (scholar more so) than the current so-called summoner when it comes to soloing content AND leveling. In fact; I would argue that the Scholar job class is EXACTLY what a summoner SHOULD BE - despite the fact it has only ONE actual summon other than Seraph - and no, I can't count Selene since she's pretty much Eos with a different color now in Shadowbringers when they gutted her into an Eos clone.