Arcanist and Summoner artwork

[Jennestia]

There is precedent for black mage summoners [Rydia, Terra], and quite frankly that's the direction I would like for Summoners in FFXIV. The whole white mage summoner kick is old and stale.

I'm most concerned about the summons themselves though - if I'm just summoning a nebulous blob most of the time I'll be pretty disappointed.

If we're talking about the few instances prior to later games in terms of 'precedents', WHM should have been part of the Archer branch and not BRD.