Summoner would not work with FFXIV current state.

[solracht]

I am in favor of constructive responses to threads

I am strongly against idiotic responses targeting specific individuals

Hypocritical much?

I am strongly against sad pathetic people who still use the controller

[Malakhim]

however, beastman is a horrible name....

What's wrong with beastman? It's like saying "human" or "animal". It's just an aggregate.

If it makes you feel better, just call them Amaal'ja, Goblins, Sahagin, Sylphs, Ixal, Kobolds, or Qiqirin.

[Nephera]

It always kind of annoyed me that ancient and powerful beings were at the beck and call of everyday Joe Vanadiel, typically in the single player games somebody would have to do something to earn that kind of service.

[Kota_Foxfrey]

I want them to add Summoners again for sure but I still think we got a long way to go before this might actually happen. I really hope they bring Geomancers around this time or maybe Time Mages. Illusionist and Necromancer would be pretty cool too.

[Verecund]

When I first saw 'Conjuror', I was hoping it would've been more along the lines of summoner, but more of an 'elementalist' if you get my drift... they would summon various elementals and use their power, or employ them as a sort of pet, etc. Something a little more divided from what it is now (which is basically a classic Black Mage with support spells thrown in).

[Malakhim]

When I first saw 'Conjuror', I was hoping it would've been more along the lines of summoner, but more of an 'elementalist' if you get my drift... they would summon various elementals and use their power, or employ them as a sort of pet, etc. Something a little more divided from what it is now (which is basically a classic Black Mage with support spells thrown in).

Check out the French translation for conjurer...

[Vackashken]

It always kind of annoyed me that ancient and powerful beings were at the beck and call of everyday Joe Vanadiel, typically in the single player games somebody would have to do something to earn that kind of service.

Which is why I say again it should be quested, their favor and their power. It can totally be done in this game. hell, it NEEDS to be done. Can you call it a FF game without a smn class? Its something only a heretic would do, I say!

[Speeral]

Hey here's an idea ha ha ha and its just for fun I am some what serious but also just throwing out something ridiculous and I am aware. Since we don't have 2 hour abilities and our birthdays are based on the gods of eorozea then why not have the primals attuned to them and our 2 hour ability be one insanely devastating attack or buff that can change the tide of hard fights.

I know its not a pet class but imagine you have your primal attuned to your diety? I would love Rhalgar the Destroyer come down and bring the pain

[Galamantyl]

oh gala my puppetmaster tank puppet tanked in a qufim party cuz our pld was lazy. I put good tank attackments on it and pld barely could take hate from it. And I barely used oils. so a pet class pet can tank. My puppet tanks all the time when I played ffxi.

Yah, I've heard this story before, and it always turns out to be bs. Note the lack of mention of what level you are, how much exp/hr you were getting - and it's qufim! Why do you have a pld around that level range for tanking in the first place? I used to tank things at that level with my bard.

[solracht]

It always kind of annoyed me that ancient and powerful beings were at the beck and call of everyday Joe Vanadiel, typically in the single player games somebody would have to do something to earn that kind of service.

If you really think so, then I don't think you paid enough attention to the SMN storyline in FFXI (and some of CoP) which is a shame. Personally I found XI had one of the best reasons in the series to give avatars to the players.

A lot of FFs are simply about the party defeating the avatar, and him/her being impressed and joining them. FFXI not only went a little deeper than that, but it also explained why it was good for a lot of random adventurers to be able to summon avatars.