Summoner - i am disappointed

[Alberel]

OP this is really only an issue because you've only just unlocked SMN. That means you just lost a bunch of cross-class skills to make way for your incoming job skills, but you haven't actually played far enough to see the replacement job skills...

Get to level 50 and you'll see that there's no problem. You've barely scratched the surface where you're at.

[Litegrace]

Just trust the 20 other players who have all gone through the same thing, it does get better. There's a reason for all of this, as stated previously: you wouldn't have enough hotbar space later on for all the useless cross class abilities, and there are only there at the beginning to give you something to do rather than spamming the same couple abilities up until 30. I'll say it plainly: stop being stubborn and put some faith in the game and the people here who have hit the level cap.

You're at the crossroads where the game starts to really open up and become fun, don't know why you are complaining about the rather bland playstyle you are leaving behind to get there.

[Skeithe]

I kinda understand what the OP is actually saying. The classes before jobs had variety of cross skills to cherry pick (rather bad ones, but that's a diff story) to help differentiate playstyle to play the way you like. Jobs simply hard core take choice away.

Most people have an idea of HOW they want to play/fulfil a role such as healer/tank/dps, making everybody play the same way, copy/paste summoner here.

MMO's are more enjoyable when you get to stand out and be different.

[Alistaire]

That's your issue with smn? Not the weak strange looking versions of the primals you control (unlike near every other fc games summoner)? Not the fact it's a DoT class instead of focusing on what should be the overwhelming power of your summon?

No it's because you can't cast Areo, another DoT.

/head desk

Yes, because this isn't another one of those terrible threads about how SMN here isn't really a SMN. /head desk all you want but OP at least understands how the job works.

[0Lime]

It was cool leveling those classes to get an edge in combat, now it feels like generic theme park mmo. I do not know if i want return to the game.

If every dps could pick whatever cross class they want from any class, everyone would have Raging Strikes, B4B, Internal Release, Quelling Strikes, and Invigorate if you're melee/BRD&MCH

Edit: Could switch out Quelling for Mercy Stroke too.