Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
You have argued "Summoner = poison mage because Rydia!" multiple times across several threads. Exceptions do not a rule make. The time has come to accept this and move on.
The only one who keeps bringing up Poison Mage is you as a strawman defense for this horrible horrible job design. When people say they enjoyed pre 6.0 SMN you pounce on the whole DoTs like it was the only aspect of the job. I got bad bad news for you, it had multiple aspects to manage, which is most likely why they have a book as a weapon when "Traditionally FF Summoners didn't equip books, blah blah blah." The current design is akin to an intern's work with little thought to the jobs history or it's mechanics. It was a rush job and feels like a rush job; funny since 2.0 was a real rush job and that version of SMN had much more depth.