mine is Stormblood summoner 4.1 onwards. To be fair its the fixed version of current summoner with a couple of differences:


1) egis existed, I remember how in eureka to put the most extreme scenario they not only could aggro stuff but also if i aggroed stuff accidentally ifrit would slap him once with his ability that also stunned mind you and save me, or in the overworld they could even sometimes deal with the add they aggroed themselves or in hoh with the mamooth that does an aoe that goes through many rooms if i wasnt carefull they could run to go fight them.

Not only that i used to do solo dragon maps as a level 70 with 270 ilvl gear mind you and no bahamut cause titan tanked for me , you also had to take care of them with sustain . not only that currently the best egi imo is titan egi cause he shields you he is perfect for progging but back then we had arguements about garuda and ifrit cause one had physical dmg buffing and garuda had magical , so what they did is fix one and break the other instead of having garuda and ifrit now we have titan and ifrit and garuda appearing only on dungeons. They had character from all this random stuff that happened not only that ghosting was easier to deal with back then cause of sic and order , now its just order, stripped from choices and worsened . They arent companions anymore now they are just toddlers. All that was asked was make garudas auto spells be instacast, it didnt have to be this way

2) The Aetherflow chain was the linchpin of summoner , with it removed everything works against each other. Now nothing makes sense egi abilities work against demi summoning instead of being the thing you depend on to help you survive long enough for the ultimate payout that is Demi bahamut, not only that instead of ruin 4 being a bonus now you dont want to use it during pheonix, youre now screwed every time the boss leaves when trance nears the cooldown . On aetherflow you didnt have that you could control your phases much better, it really felt like you were planning, like you had everything under your control , Control your pets to do you bidding , use their spells early so that when the time comes to use the one spell remaining theyd use it immediately, give no chance for the boss to avoid your spells , play safer at your weakest youre mobile enough to avoid what he throws at you, use devotion for dps or as extra mitigation , use garuda if you re heavy on magic dmg or ifrit if youre more on the physical. people called it like mastering a piano of a rotation that is 2 mins and they were right it was like music , All the choices dripping from the job it was so GOOD and if you managed to pull your music you were rewarded with the best job in this game, The AOE King , the Dps who for 20 seconds had the best dps and utility in the game , Smn with a bahamut out , but if you died if you died at any point you would lose everything you would start worse than if youd reset the fight. That kind of high risk high reward , is the reason i fell in love with smn.


All this though is now gone Bahamut is an egi compared to stormblood bahamut , pheonix is clunky as hell , job is literally a shadow of its former self. here lies stormblood smn may he return in the next expansion