SMN endgame how is it

[Vallhallix]

SMN is very divisive among the community this expansion. Some think it's great, others feel like it's been ruined. Typically job changes don't normally elicit such a wide range of receptions from my experience.

Which is basically no different from every other expansion. And the main reason is because people want them to do multiple things with the SMN and they all conflict. You have some people who want to keep the useless pets just because they want pets, you have people who want them to give us meaningless pet glamors for them. You have the outright weird suggestions like some people wanting summoner to go back to how it was pre-heavensward, which was basically just an Arcanist with a SMN tag, did not at all feel like a summoner or like an evolved job class with it's own identity beyond reskinned carbuncles.

Then you have people like me who prefer that they continue on with the demi summons that actually make the SMN feel like a summoner rather than an arcanist with a pikachu, letting us use the abilities of the primals which is inline with the actual lore of the summoner in this game. Just change our abilities around for each demi summon phase just like they did with Phoenix. It's the obvious route to go, and the one that works.

Summoner's main problem is that it never ever ever should have been attached to a healer class. It should have had it's own seperate identity from Scholar from the start, they should have NEVER shared a base class. This hindered Summoner's development from the start.