Quote Originally Posted by Xeronia View Post
I am just saying pets/egis have been a part of the ff14 Summoner identity since launch and to remove it instead of improve it would be a massive mistake to me and honestly not really in line with the recent class reworks. Ninja still has Mudras after they were changed in ShB as it is a key part of class identity, Monk got it's death penalty removed and kept Grease Lightning as a trait instead of a clunky build up mechanic, Astrologian kept it's card but they got changed on ShB launch. All these classes largely kept their identity, I see no reason to remove Summoners when it could be improved upon.
I don’t think pets are going away. What people are debating over is how they will function. Personally I don’t think SE will change much aesthetically or functionally about most of the kit apart from Pet AI itself and maybe how we target certain abilities. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to make Summoners target abilities on the pet directly, such as Devotion. Where I think they will focus their attention is on exposing pet AI or tuning up its responsiveness and trimming buttons that are already mutually exclusive.