Summoner: if summoner is the first new class to be released what would you expect?

[Shurrikhan]

Assuming Summoner is going to be a pet job, I would want it to be built on a less restrictive foundation. Then we can worry about avatars and whatnot. My suggestion would be:

Class: Evoker
Weapon: Crystal Orb, Tamagushi

Honestly this sounds more like what a "Conjurer" should be, but without the elemental basis. An "Evoker" by name usually refers to the evoking or outward movement of internal powers.

That's really the only complaint I have with it though. I would enjoy seeing this added to game. It's just that I'd prefer they finish off all possibilities for spell methodologies off the bat, rather than adding otherwise arbitrary classes just to pair with jobs that should be based on uses of the original schools of magic. Elemental/Spiritual/Arcane seems to me to be able to encapsulate everything in FF magic. The only problem then is the system, since Summoning would theoretically come from any of those sources -- live creatures and primals from CNJ, spirits and non-elemental / archetypal eidolens from THM, and elementals and anomalies from Arcanist.