New Summoner looks really nice, but...

[aveyond-dreams]

Basically the removed everything that made Summoner a SMN; DoTs gone, Pets gone.

DoTs have never been an integral part of summoner nor summon magic in the entire history of Final Fantasy. I am sorry that your apparent first introduction to the job was its warlock clone iteration, which is the only reason I can conceive of why you would say this.
I do not need to explain why many are happy to see persistent egis gone. I will gladly take one off summon magic that does what its supposed to than a buggy pet. Bahamut and Pheonix luckily got the fixes they needed from what I’ve seen of them in media tour footage, thank goodness.

First the job is popular so it wasn't depised because if it was people wouldn't play it. Second I'll admit 5.X SMN was clunky in design but 2.X, 3.X, 4.X played fine. Third every job isn't design would you in mind and it's rather selfish to want them to be. Sometimes the job you want to play isn't the job you want to play.

Now I have to find a new main because SE did ruin my class.

It was despised and memed on by the vast majority of people who could see the class for what it was, including a significant chunk of those who played it, sorry to burst your bubble. It’s been a running gag since ARR when it first released and those of us who were playing SMN in FFXI took a look at it and went, “That’s it??” From an outside perspective the class looked like a complete mess.

As to your other remark, I can easily just say the same to you, the job should not have been designed with only you and the minority of people who for some reason enjoyed this outlier job when a lot of people were actively avoiding it, including people who loved summoner in other FF titles. I’ve grinded for Carbuncle’s Ruby for weeks on end in FFXI for multiple characters to unlock and level the job to max multiple times. If FFXIV’s summoner isn’t palatable to me of all people that’s when you know something has gone seriously wrong.

My recommendation for you would be to at least try the 6.0 version for yourself and see how it plays before jumping to conclusions. What is plain to see is that the old direction it was going in was leading to nowhere.

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I am not sure what this post was supposed to accomplish, it reads like a tantrum and doesn’t do much to convince me of anything. In any case I appreciate you sharing your unique perspective.