I believe the job should not have been named summoner. The summons are an abomination. The class should have been called elementalist. With a real summoner to be released at a later date.

The class is useful for soloing etc. But for a party situation i will be using something else.

The fact that the summoner focus' more on DoT's than the summons pretty much kills the appeal of the job. And with so few options in summons available, makes it even more limited. What are they really gonna do when the level cap raises? at lvl 75 you will have 5 elementals to choose from? Disgusting.