As a summoner, I feel this is too random to use effectively. Unlike other random procs like Free-cure, Thundercloud, or River of Blood, this is no strategical use of this and this is too hard to account for when doing any type of theory crafting. This trait should be changed so at least we can choose when to use the spell speed increase from the skill. At the very worst, give Arcanist an additional skill (like White Mage got Stoneskin II mid tier) that only activates when the trait activates and we have a few seconds whether to press the button before the proc disappears. A better suggestion is to change to proc all together and make it do something else. Good suggestions are:
  • Reset a cooldown
  • Decrease MP costs
  • Pet buff

Resetting a cooldown doesn't mean something broken that heavily affects DPS, like resetting Aetherflow or Tri-Disaster. It could be something simple like resetting the 10 second recast time for bane, painflare, or Fester, which are all still tied to Aetherflow usages so we still don't get more than 3 per minute. It could change the dynamics of openers to make the class a bit less mechanical.

We've also already seen that there is a trait to reduce Ruin III cost in DWT. It would be great if we had reduced costs (even if just for Ruin III) for even 5 seconds out side of DWT too. Of course, that's a huge DPS buff so reducing the cost of everything except Ruin III (for example Ruin II) also would be great. If the skill reduced the cost of Ruin II to the cost of Ruin for 10 seconds it wouldn't be that much of a DPS increase (or any in that moment) but it would be a great cost savings for MP to use for something later.

The obvious thing is just to buff your pet by some value (20% maybe). I'm not seeing why this would be broken seeing as this is random anyway.

I play almost every day as a Summoner and most of the time forget that this thing even exists because I have no choice of what happens when it procs, nor does it even influence my game play when it does. Also, Unless you are staring at your character's buff bar, you won't even know it happened. At least some animation around the player to alert them would be nice.