Revamp Summoner idea

[Stormblessed9000]

I disagree completely about other classes not having choices. Some classes need to decide if it's safe to stand in an AoE for half a second longer to get off a spell or positional, to clip a dot since you're not sure you'll be able to apply it at the proper time, or to prioritise reapplying a speed buff instead of a damage one since you think it will make you able to squeeze in an extra GCD, these kind of things do have optimal answers, but their immediacy forces you to actually think about the answers.

On the other hand, this new summoner, in it's builder phase at least, has barely any choices it needs to make. Almost everything you'd need to decide would be decided before you actually step into the fight and the can be written in one sentence/image on a guide. The summons themselves could add some element of decision making if they are well balanced enough that their relative performance varies with the flow of the fight, but even then you're in the same situation as the other classes in that you're just trying to figure out the best option. The only difference is that most other classes give you more choices you need to make and give you more to think about between those choices.

The balance of the summons would also need to be changed every time new content was released. If their situation dependant damage is not close enough in an encounter, all of your choices vanish.