Summoner: An action or a dot?

[zcrash970]

Realistically, they won't remove the egis. SMN will always have egis.
They're too represented in game to just suddenly be gone. (carbuncle gear, mounts, housing items, etc.)
They move product and earn the company money. (my fiance for example has 4 carbuncle lights, some plush, an earring, a piggy bank, and one of those resetable calendars)

I think the discussion should probably be: if we don't want the carbuncles out as a token summon between the big ones, what other form could / should they take?

There is a way to do it. Make arcanist a healer class that goes into SCH and make Carby a healer pet while making SMN an extra job like rdm.

[ItMe]

Make arcanist a healer class that goes into SCH

SMN and SCH are both tied to ARC in ways they've said their spaghetti code doesn't allow them to separate.

make Carby a healer pet

Are you suggesting that the egi replace the faries? Because SCH lore is all about the faries.

while making SMN an extra job like rdm.

How is RDM an extra job? I don't follow that point.