Evolved Summoner speculation

[Carighan]

Since evolved brd is so close to the current smn design, i'm really praying for the job to go back to being a pet class with summons staying around long term and having interesting interactions.

Sadly one of a handful of very few actually consistent rules for MMORPG design is that as they age, they either remove or neuter their pet classes. It always happens. Even DAoC removed even their Necromancer as it used to be and re-implemented it, and that class had conceptually solved the pet-class problem by making you the pet.