Quote Originally Posted by Grimoire-M View Post
He’s interpreting the many SMN forum posts that amount to “Please change pets/egi!” in a way that benefits his viewpoint. No one wants Summoner to not care about summons. There’s just a wide variety of suggestions, from Dissidia Yuna-style animations that are functionally the same as a regular GCD spell, to Summonsong Demi/phases akin to the worst of Bard and current pet AI smothered together, to more reasonable suggestions like not changing anything except the underlying engine and net code problems that are the root cause of the pet issues, to pulling out old ARR/HW skills and repurposing them as the low level equivalents to Dreadwyrm and Firebird Trance so that the job’s levelling progression makes some amount of sense again.

If SE wants to completely scrap current pets, that’s their prerogative. Personally I think they should commit to fixing what they have using the best of what worked in prior expansions, just because the only assets people actually hate are the Egi.
Ah, I see.
Thank you~