Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
Honestly, what makes a Summoner a Summoner?.̶
Something that's really hard to accomplish when you've got tons of other jobs to design as well. Summoner basically revolves around being flashy and big nuke damage - ya summon the big thing, it does the big damage (like your example, Demi-Bahamut), then it goes away. Unfortunately they really couldn't accomplish this in 2.0 so they tried to reinvent summoner by tying summoning with aether and not being able to channel a ton of it because it's the life source of the world and blah blah blah lore reasons. It's nice to see with this expansion that they're taking it in the direction most would like it to go in without getting rid of the stuff that some people liked about original SMN. Hopefully there's more Demi-Bahamut type skills in future expansions.