With the changes to summoner in 6.0 it’s pretty safe to say there’s been a massive divide in the SMN community. Some love the simplification of the job and the added flavor of actually consistently summoning things; while others despise it and the perceived negative impact on their performance, with some abandoning the job entirely.

Personally, I’m somewhere in the middle. Flavor-wise I love calling upon each of the ARR primals and I very much appreciate that my chosen class is a lot more beginner-friendly. However I can’t help but feel something is missing both in terms of how it feels to play, and actual personal DPS vs party utility - and its hard not to feel more than a little discouraged when people are calling you the “phys ranged” of the magic dps or straight-up a worse RDM.

Since in the latest Liveletter and patch note reading yoship encouraged us users to provide our feedback on the forums, I thought I’d throw in my two cents with what I like vs what I don’t with new summoner.