SMNs, get used to the current Egis.

[Nalien]

I honestly wish they'd just cut the pets out completely... Turn Arcanist into a healer and the Class for Scholar and turn Summoner into an extra Job like Dark Knight, then just have the "pets" work like Bahamut does... Build Inferno Stacks, do Ifrit-based abilities, for example. Work in the elemental wheel to add some stack management (wind stacks remove fire stacks, fire stacks remove ice stacks, etc.) or something. Would make for a better Job IMO.

That'd be horrible! Do you know there are people out there who actually enjoy PET classes.. if you dont... dont play it..

I enjoy pet Jobs, but I wouldn't really call Summoner or Scholar a pet Job. They have a pet, sure, but the interactions between pet and master are just so lacking...

Anyway, I'd much rather have a Summoner that works through a full rotation of all its summons, than one which sics Garuda-Egi on a mob and occasionally pops out a Bahamut head. I'd rather have a Summoner which summons all its summons, than one which uses one Egi and a Bahamut and nothing else. Bahamut is great, I just wish all the summons were given similar treatment so they could all be used. Summoner in Final Fantasy always suffered a bit from "Use this one over and over", I'd prefer they break away from that and use all of them in a rotation, than adhere to it by going "Use your favorite by just glamouring the Egi!".

They could equally slap the Egis in a similar rotation by rebuilding the Job somewhat, though. I wouldn't rule that out either, but the way Bahamut works currently makes that seem more attractive at the moment. All they'd really need to do is give all the pets their own cooldowns (currently they all share recasts IIRC), perhaps slap their recasts up somewhat and increase the potency to compensate, either make casting them faster or have the summoning action actually also double up as an attack (to make the cast time worthwhile). Then you're done; You summon Ifrit-Egi, he does his actions. Switch to Garuda-Egi so she can do hers. You'd cycle through all the pets having them go through their actions, rather than using the same one all the time. I'd find that to be a stark improvement. My biggest issue with Summoner is that it summons a pet once then never really has to again. The main part of Summoners rotation should be in summoning. Either remove the pets and have them all summoned like Bahamut in a rotation, or make the pets part of a rotation and give us all of them, rather than some lame glamour.