I think this game could use a warlock class.

[AnaviAnael]

Who did you play with? That is odd. I was a SMN main in FFXI since release (2003) I got my WHM up to 60 fairly quickly and then did the lv65 avatar fights. In end game on my SMN I did sub WHM but never touched the spells, only sneak and invis to get to the camp. My LS leaders had me do damage...always. I was put in a PT with a brd and rdm and had my pet out all the time with my AF2 (I got the full set very quickly,w as lucky lol)

A lot of people had zero idea what a SMN could do. Plain and simple. Either they didn't play the job and therefore "it must suck," or they played with bad SMNs who gave people the impression the job was garbage. A lot of jobs in FFXI suffered that fate (people don't know the job/play job poorly and it must be the job's fault).

I totally agree. I just find it funny that in making this argument in the lore as for why we can't have more than 3 egis, they kinda made it questionable why we can't have more than one egi active at the same time.
And now we're getting the egis anyway albeit as glamour. I can't wait how they try to justify this in the lore as it contradicts their earlier statement... :P

Lore: The cause of and solution to all of XIV's problems XD