My thoughts on what a summoner SHOULD have been. This is my opinion only and some of you will agree and some will flat out hate, but it's just one persons view. Mine!.

This topic has nothing to do with our classes DPS, I know a summoner played properly can do some amazing DPS.

So to me, the summoner class should have never been created as a DOT class. There is lots of potential of new jobs where dots can be applied ( thief ) for example with poisons on there dagger. Summoner should also not have been allowed to have a Pet required to be out all the time.

Summoner to me is not a pet class, it is a class that when needed can call forth beings of immense power to aid them for a duration and then be removed from the field. Examples being Final Fantasy 7 and 8. ( yeah they never had specific roles in those games but it worked brilliantly. Even 10 was pretty good building up to the Aeons final ability ).