Arcanist (Summoner) Summon/Pet Control

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If you prefer a summon/pet system requiring more hands on from the player - like this post.

This is still pretty vague. There's two approaches to what you're mentioning.

1) Commands directly from the summoner themselves: We have action bars and will continue to have them going into 2.0. The most the summon would be able to do is auto attack once engaged to the mob, with the summoner triggering abilities from their own action bar.

2) Pet UI separate from player UI: Going again with the fact that we have action bars, summons having individual action bars with pertinent commands that can be triggered by the player and can also be set to auto-use.

Seeing that Arcanist and SMN will have debuffs and DoTs as part of their gameplay, I'm thinking they may go with the latter rather than the former. Otherwise the SMN may not have time to do what they need to do during a fight, especially with the faster pace of combat.