Quote Originally Posted by Anova View Post
The toughest part about both those classes is pet management. You have to be able to quickly move and stop your summon's actions. Best way is to assign hotkeys to the pet's "place" and "steady" commands. Those will let you move your pet and tell it to stop. To reactivate your pet from steady, you will have to use the "guard" command.
The pet thing is what was tripping me up big time about Arcanist (mostly the funky way the PS3 hotbar is handled), but once you get a feel for the commands, it's pretty easy. By about level 10 I was comfortable enough with it to consider pursuing it beyond the White Mage requirement.