Quote Originally Posted by Wildsprite View Post
for Arcanist, I would like them to play like the existing Summoner job in this game does and have them change the existing Summoner job to something a bit more like the one in FFXI.
Yes, this has mentioned several times, and the response is simple: go play FFXI. It's still running. The design team actively decided against this since they felt this type of class was too passive. It wasn't the player character's actions that were moving the story along, it was the player's pet by proxy. Also, the design of the game really doesn't support this type of class. No matter what the summoner looks like, I guarantee the pet will not be active as it was in FFXI, you will have to actually cast spells.