When can we see Arcanist / Summoner in action?

[Elexia]

Ya, that's what I heard too. it was supposed to have a staff and do ranged damage or something. That was why I said they were re-purposing. A little disappointed I can't summon the primal themselves but I'm ok with an Ifrit powered carby. I think I also heard talk about them looking at adding in other avatars to summon later on? groovy beans!

The original Arcanist did this:

-Lay Trap type magic (distaffs I believe.)
-Has insane buffs like HP/MP/TP regain
-Used Magic Missile.

So it wasn't fully known what it would do, but these were the basics in the data, so chances are ARN in ARR will likely summon stuff beyond Carbuncle since it's DoT based.