Just a quick thought on summoner hope some people agree.

So as a smn main since release I love how smn has evolved in 6.0. The only thing I'm still not quite in love with and never was is the expression of weapon, the book, which is only what it is due to being tied to sch.

Really surprised this never changed or they didn't just make smn a job separately that can just start at lv 30 removing any archanist dna.

Since we are stuck with the books, which have the worst available glamours imo compared to other jobs, why not change the expression of how they represent the job?

In the most recent iteration of smn carbuncle does nothing but stand there lol. It's only interaction is with Radiant Aegis. This i'd argue is where expression could best take place.

Instead of some rather basic looking design to the book why not have carbuncle take on design changes like a weapon would. Just decouple the only skill he is connected to and it is basically just a signifier that you are a smn and not a sch at a glance. Make it so when the class is equipped carbuncle is auto summoned. Then carbuncle is technically your weapon and not the book. Then you can get glamours for the pet, for example - Titania would drop a grimoire that summons an faerie inspired carbuncle when equiped (maybe faerie wings, different colorings etc). Or Omega would be a grayscale carbuncle with tech inspired limbs.

With primal related fights you would actually get a scaled down model of the actual primal (not an egi).

This concept can work for sch too just everything with a faerie base. Which would mean a scaled down Titania for that specific fight! No need to decouple abilities for them though as they would always have a faerie and not disrupt the disbelief that each skin/glamour could use the skills of the original faerie.

I'm not suggesting a change in how the skills work or interact or even how the pets switch out on ability use. Just that the base pet that follows you around and shows that you are a sch or a smn be what gets the cool glamours versus the books if we have to keep them. There are only so many ways you can dress up a book.