Quote Originally Posted by SieyaM View Post
If you mean ShB, then by that time pets were no longer entities that could be targeted or hurt. I don't remember if that was the case in StB. As for identity, SMN was both the DoT and pet mage for a while with two separate kits fighting for dominance in the job. You had your DoT stuff and abilities for it, then you had your pet stuff and abilities for it. In the end the pet stuff ended up being a constant sore point for both players and the dev team. Pets ghosting was a huge problem and the dev team got tired of trying to fix it while also balancing around the pets themselves.
And they proceeded to “fix” that problem by not actually fixing what’s wrong with the pets (Demi’s) but instead making SMN’s rotation so bare bones that you don’t even notice the Demi problem anymore because there is nothing in the pets queue to actually be interrupted by the Demi summon

SCH in EW (besides seraph) showed they can easily fix the pet problem, it’s the Demi’s that are the problem