Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
They even justified in 14’s lore why old SMN was the way it was and drew parallels to its partner class in SCH (ACN for both is us later rediscovering the foundations upon which alleg built SMN and nyrm built SCH, that’s why ACN is the origin class for both), full summons were never part of the design because alleg wouldn’t allow the full summoning of primals; even if it was primarily done from the summoners aether and the allegen origins explain why the class included DOT’s

Modern SMN has no lore that makes any remote sense given 14’s world and the fact its origin class is still ACN, SMN has long since abandoned its partnership with SCH (which also creates the annoying drama of people playing the easiest DPS level the hardest healer by proxy for free, have you ever done dead ends with a SMN main playing SCH) and even then it still plays more like a diet enchanter anyway because the summons feel meaningless
Justifying it in lore does nothing to address that form an outside perspective, I just do not think the job is "Summoner." And that's fine, which is why I think it should've just retained the name "Arcanist" instead. That's the only issue I had with the former Summoner design.