As an aside, I am totally fine with the way Summoner works with its pet aside from how bad the pet looks (and doesn't scale with food/possibly materia, but that's another story). My reasoning is fairly simple: In every final fantasy game over the years for the console our summons required tremendous amounts of MP to actually utilize. There was literally no way to use them the majority of the time (w/o consumables of course) except on bosses.

Currently, the pet's big attack has a long CD but does damage fitting the above category. If the graphics on it could be improved to something more... non-craptastic I'd be happy as pie in terms of pet vs me balance.