Summoner - What it needs.

[Carighan]

I disagree with this - most of the criticisms I read and hear about from players is that new SMN is too easy, repetitive, and mindless. And former Summoner, despite its power level, was quite convoluted and played more like an Affliction Warlock than a true Summoner.

I will not take this insult to Affliction Warlock, an actual DoT class, to compare it with the random hodgepodge of non-fitting vestiges of class design that was the old Summoner. Ugh.

Jokes aside, that alone should already convey why old Summoner was a bad design though: Where does "I'm the DoT DPS" fit "Summoner", especially comparing how summons work in FF games in general? It just doesn't.