Quote Originally Posted by SweetPete View Post
I’m sorry but why is it called summoner again? A summoner summons things. Please enlighten us on what else a summoner should do. I’m actually quite curious.
Well for the past 8 years it’s been a job based around dots and pets, later gaining a burst phase that invokes the idea of a summoner.

Gonna be honest. If this was the case Dark Knight would be a tank that burns it’s own HP, but because it’s an MMO they sure as hell can’t do that. Summoners have always summoned, it’s in the freaking name for goodness sakes, but they should do more then just summons. Even in past games in the series, Summoners did more then just summon. FFIV had Rydia use Black and white magic spells ranging from the basic fire and blizzard to Bio, poison, stop, break, and flare just to name a few, alongside the games many summons, in FFIX Garnet & Eiko function as a White mage/Summoner, and in just about every other numbered game in the franchise almost all characters could summon and, by proxy, do more then just summon.

So why should XIV just be the job that does nothing but summon, XI already did that before. We shouldn’t be binding Summon to the clause of ‘it’s a summoner it’s only supposed to summon’ because by that state of reasoning Dragoon shouldn’t have anything that isn’t a jump, or Bards using archery, or White Mages shouldn’t have had elemental based spells. Jobs can have more to them, then just a lone gimmick.