Quote Originally Posted by Sequora View Post
Your description of SMN AoE is spot on. It's also a very specific niche type of "best damage". As to the OP about arcanist being a beautiful class with it's disease/pet combo, I couldn't really disagree more. Summoner has always been my favorite final fantasy job throughout the series. Having the bulk of our damage come from disease spells feels very out of place to me.

I think the best way to look at it, is that Arcanist is spot on with how they are in the game. The Summoner is just the job that route from Arcanist and in its Root, a SMN still functions pretty close to how a SMN should function. With the coming patch we will grow more into SMN and most likely more away from Arcanist.