The problem with Summoners

[Akiza]

You can't claim everyone jumped from SMN to whatever basedon them not liking the job for what it is, that's just not true. Everyone has their own reasons, but the primary one is endgame. SMN just wasn't built for Final Coil and are now seeing it's flaws, hence people jumping. Last I checked, nobody is arguing against change, as in adjustments to it's current playstyle. The change you want is to feel like a special snowflake, summoning godlike beings, destroying stuff left and right. You've been whining for it since day one. Source material is just that: source material. How someone uses it depends on what they want to do with it.

And it's a bit of stretch to even presume the new jobs will be more interesting to SMN, let alone the rest of the jobs. A lot of people jumped to NIN, not all of them came from SMN. And I would gladly play the job I liked and not care what anyone says. I primarily played PUP in XI and played it well, despite its' weaknesses and I would do it again if I could.

It's not just Final Coils its all endgame content that is highlighting the weaknesses and technical issues with the Summoner. The Summoner has not kept up with current jobs in DPS and to make content more challenging its SE designed endgame with little down time, massive up time and mobs that need to be burned down quickly or cause a party wipe. This content design negatively affects Summoner directly. Unless SE wants to be forced to design content around the Summoner they should overhaul it to be AoE Bursts or at leasts make Pets AoE Bursts and do the majority of the damage.