Summoner - Class feedback - complaint

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The problem is you keep going back to FFXI as a reference but it's only hurting you, not helping. In FFXI you had 4 main position in a PT; tank, healer, dps, and support. In FFXIV you have 3; tank, healer, dps. SMN in FFXIV does one job but does it well, dps. In FFXI, at least when I played, the defining role of SMN was /37 whm. You had some cool move like aerial armor and stone skinaga but at the end of the day I didn't feel like a SMN, just a gimped healer.

To be a true FF summoner you have to make them a simple caster, not a pet job.