Summoner is a Final Fantasy 14 summoner (not a warlock wow clone)

[Dyvid]

Because if they actually properly compacted this class and didn't bloat out the hotbar it would literally be a one-hotbar job, not including role actions.

Elemental summons could be reduced to one button, Carby shield and not-devotion could be merged into one button because there's no reason to not use them around the same time, ruin IV could just replace ruin III for a GCD (or just not exist at all with how useless the skill is), Energy drain could be trait upgraded to siphon and have AOE damage falloff, same AOE damage falloff trait upgrade for Fester+painflare, Astral flow could just be merged into the summon GCD itself, and as you said, the gemshines could become replacers for outburst and ruin. That's 13 buttons that could be merged down to 6, or 5.

Tanks have more buttons we commonly press than this. FFS they should've done that and replaced all the missing hotbar space with heal OGCDs, that way we could finally get the healer we've all been asking for, too.

I think that does speak something of the current design though doesn't? They say SMN is the new third job but I feel RPR has more depth than SMN. SMN is basically the same job 90 as it is at 30, they just keep upgrading the same basic spells (Ruby, Topaz, Emerald, Aethercharge, Gemshine, Precious Brillance). This is truly the art of phoning it in.