But what about Summoner???

[Shadowsun]

The SMN quest even tells you right off the bat at lvl50: No Ramuh-Egi or of other primals because they are too stronk to steal part of their essence. So instead you get to channel Bahamut's power, which works just as well for me, way more fun to play now. Who cares about the pet? FF Summoners have always been about unleashing large powers, not being a pet handler.

[Exodus-E]

The SMN quest even tells you right off the bat at lvl50: No Ramuh-Egi or of other primals because they are too stronk to steal part of their essence. So instead you get to channel Bahamut's power, which works just as well for me, way more fun to play now. Who cares about the pet? FF Summoners have always been about unleashing large powers, not being a pet handler.

Actually, that's not accurate.

It's not that they're too strong for us to steal their essence (we still have the essence of ALL primals we've defeated thus far within us), it's just that our own reserves of aether are insufficient to create yet another independent Egi construct (ie. no Summon IV).

Hence what prompted Y'mhitra to find out about an alternative way of summoning (Trance).

[Radacci]

The SMN quest even tells you right off the bat at lvl50: No Ramuh-Egi or of other primals because they are too stronk to steal part of their essence. So instead you get to channel Bahamut's power, which works just as well for me, way more fun to play now. Who cares about the pet? FF Summoners have always been about unleashing large powers, not being a pet handler.

which is quite lame, since Bahamut is one of the strongest primals...
but *trance* works, so duno why we can't get trance for all primals? would be cool with trance-stance, where you dont use egi, but can still use pet skills, from being in trance.
that would be a fun re-invention of SMN. then they could add beastmaster as a real pet job - right now SMN doesn't really feel like one.