Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
And how can you call the Summoner of the past a Summoner with its hideously designed egis and demis that took ages to build up to? That were also hardly there? Please. Summon magic being 1 off spells is nothing new. They do in fact do something, they do their attack, then leave. That was Summon magic for a significant portion of FF's history, there is no pretending otherwise.

This is the compromise after 8 years of failed pet mechanics. Finally we have something with good flow that actually works for the most part.
Have you even played the new summoner yet? We still have the janky pets. When you cast summon a new pet spawns next to the player and does its attack. The pet has a travel time and a delay before its attack which can miss as the range is rather limited. Summon also requires a target. Which means if your target dies right before you cast it then you have to select a new target. Before, when the pet was on Sic, it'd choose the next suitable target for auto attacks and Egi-Assault commands. The summon doesn't even stick around for long. It just spawn, attacks, then despawns. You lose out on the cool factor of having the pet stick around.

This is not better.