LOL @ people wanting a big cast big damage summon attacks, do you play BLM??? have you played BLM on lvl 60 stuff? have you had to move out of AoEs interrupting a fire-X? now think on how frustrating that would be with longer cast times.


I mained SMN on FFXI for years, loved the quest, the avatars, the challenge etc, but it was the most ignored job by devs, or better said, the job that scared the devs the most to give new toys. The upkeep MP you needed, the stats that didn't matter on you char as avatars did all the job, the role of healer up to lvl 70, and then later in end game stuff with the updates so avatars buffed the party you became a sad kid with a diabolos balloon that was only used to refresh the BLM party in dynamis (as using the buffs cut the avatars dps, so you needed a meticulus dance of throwing a bloodpact once in a while) but at least at that time yo used an avatar other than Garuda (poor titan, poor ifrit, etc)

Seriously FFXIV SMN people, just admit that you are ok with the job and your complain is that your avatar is minion size and not the model of the primal. If you had the models and with FFXI size you would... complain that you only have 3.