Summon size have you down? why not have it your way?

[Nofacekiller]

They went this way once and made SMN one of the worst classes in the game. Back before the level cap, SMN was almost never used for damage dealing due to their sloppy, restricted design. Their support abilities were subpar as well with a couple exceptions such as Hastega, Spring Water etc.

Don't fix something that isn't broken. SMN this time is actually useful and the Egi are perfectly fine. Although, Ifrit could honestly use some adjustments to make him more viable.

Wait, I never said copy FFXI exactly how it was. You can make SMN more about the pet and it doesn't necessarily mean that they will be any less powerful. FFXI had a great concept but the implementation was extremely poor.

SE took the easy way out and copied WoW instead of trying to make the traditional SMN class viable.