I keep hearing how the job has MP issues...

So... why not an ability that consumes your pet and refills your MP bar?

Primal Syphon - Sacrifices your pet to refill MP to 100%. That primal cannot be resummoned for 1 minute/30 sec something like that.

And then your stuck using Ifrit for the duration, which you could just Swiftcast out.

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I also keep hearing, since launch, how lackluster the primals are... soooo

Why not for one... turn their Limit Break into the same limit breaks as their primals? Garuda uses Aerial Blast, Ifrit Hellfire, etc. You could pretty much copy the same animations... though would hafta tone down the scale based off how many charges.

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Personally, I still kinda miss seeing the role played like FFXI, where you were assisting your Primal, and not the other way around.... but meh.. I'll stick to tanking.