Arcanist/Summoner overhaul! A suggestion~

[DBthaONE]

If ifrit is accessible to arcanist, then scholars could call him. Remember, every class ability is accessible to their job.

[Lodiodrive]

Can't really see any of the changes not making smn OP. I think SMN is fine once you start managing the pet skills manually it starts to feel more like a pet job.

Sometimes I'd like fester to not use Aetherflow but instead consume all current DoTs on the enemy and deal damage. This way you don't feel so bad wasting DoT ticks when a mob dies in 10 seconds.

Contagion=managing pet skills.

[Deamon]

My SMN is working as intended.

[Earis_Gainsborough]

SMN need to have pet dmg increase and perhaps a % increase with having that pet active.

Parsers still show SMN doing worse off than most in single target situations.

Also... The gear is friggin' awful for SMN at the moment... Speed is all over the place and it just hinders SMN hard. That's where the DPS loss is at, probably. Sooo.. Crap..

[Seobit]

Afraid to say you're not parsing the right summoner(s).

[Madoka]

Most of the posters in this thread aren't good summoners

[Blackcanary]

Most of the posters in this thread aren't good summoners

I'm only guessing it might be because there trying to play Summoner as a pet class not a dot class. That's just a guess. Summoner should of been fixed in the beta but it was never in the beta for some stupid reason.

[PriyaJugulataris]

Again, Summoners play like Warlocks from WoW, which a lot people dislike because they want a more pet focused class/played FFXI and want that summoner back. You're saying it needs to be fixed, everyone else is saying revamp.

[Mimilu]

Thinking about it, if we changed the weapon to a rapier/epee, the current SMN-shtick could probably have have worked as a really good Red Mage (minus the pets).
I mean, ACN get both healing and damaging magic and focus on DoTs and enfeebling, with SMN expanding on that with Fester and Tri-Disaster.
Get rid of the pet stuff, add some buffs and debuffs like a Spike spell, an En- spell to buff your attacks (Enruin, maybe), give them Contagion as a Job action, and maybe some old RDM stuff like Double Cast and/or Chainspell, and ta-da, Red Mage.

[Exstal]

I admit I didn't use many of the special classes in the class based Final Fantasy. What was the benefit of having a Red Mage?