Summoner has some real problems

[Taranok]

My personal opinion is summoner doesn't need a tank pet, titan-egi always was a badly implemented pet, and the new implementation just further reinforces that Titan-Egi could be deleted and I doubt I'd care. Putting survival utility on a pet with a button that directly competes with doing more damage is already a bad enough idea, and the class has far bigger problems than not being able to solo mobs 100% safely like it could before. As for pets having aoes that can hit things around your target, it's entirely possible and reasonable to maneuver singular adds away from other adds, so I'm not sure this is actually a problem as long as you're patient enough to give the add enough time to move away from others. Hell, I've gone through all of ShB without my pet accidentally pulling anything that I wouldn't pull accidentally from Deathflare anyways.

Also, only the Faeries are the same. Ifrit is your single target damage pet, Garuda your aoe damage pet (ifrit does do aoe damage, but it's still primarily single target), and Titan is a noob trap since the shield is almost always the worst thing you can do in a given situation as it denies you both the damage from EA 1 and the ruin 4 charge.

[xXAzurePrimeXx]

I really dont understand this fascination people seem to have with Physick on Summoner. Why do you guys want Summoner to be a healer?

[Duskane]

I really dont understand this fascination people seem to have with Physick on Summoner. Why do you guys want Summoner to be a healer?

Red mage has a working heal SMN want there's fixed!

basically why

[Leidiriv]

Red mage has a working heal SMN want there's fixed!

basically why

The main thing there is that RDM mostly uses their heal to proc Dualcast while the boss is untargetable. Physick is just an unfortunate artifact of SMN and SCH both originating from ACN, which they seem to be loathe to remove from SMN for some reason, whereas RDM has traditionally had some healing ability.

[WindyGamer]

My personal opinion is summoner doesn't need a tank pet, titan-egi always was a badly implemented pet, and the new implementation just further reinforces that Titan-Egi could be deleted and I doubt I'd care. Putting survival utility on a pet with a button that directly competes with doing more damage is already a bad enough idea, and the class has far bigger problems than not being able to solo mobs 100% safely like it could before. As for pets having aoes that can hit things around your target, it's entirely possible and reasonable to maneuver singular adds away from other adds, so I'm not sure this is actually a problem as long as you're patient enough to give the add enough time to move away from others. Hell, I've gone through all of ShB without my pet accidentally pulling anything that I wouldn't pull accidentally from Deathflare anyways.

Also, only the Faeries are the same. Ifrit is your single target damage pet, Garuda your aoe damage pet (ifrit does do aoe damage, but it's still primarily single target), and Titan is a noob trap since the shield is almost always the worst thing you can do in a given situation as it denies you both the damage from EA 1 and the ruin 4 charge.

Not clear here. So Titan was broken, so remove it? Rather than fixing it?
Also, all those differences between Ifrit / Garuda/ Titan are now gone, right? They are all the same. Just Eye candy differences?
"Primarily Single Target?" I'm not clear on the distinction here. Either it aggros other stuff to come at you or it doesn't. There is no "partial" aggro, is there? "Don't come at me really hard, just softly?" That doesn't sound right. Once you are aggro'd then that's one more thing banging down your HP that you need to worry about.
I have more testing to do, I admit.