Why summoner is a DoT job?

[Jyhnnox]

Why?
Never in any other FF they worked like this, so why this is how they are here?

I'm not saying they dont do damage, because they do. But why are their mechanics like this? This job should have a different name :X I even like the looks of the egis unlike some other people, just don't like the amount of DoTs the job has.

I believe nobody has the answer for this, but feeling so disappointed about the job atm that will make my arcanist turn into Scholar first... And that comes from a main Summoner player from previously FFs.

PS.: Sry for errors, not native english speaker here.

This is an MMO. Even though Summoner is a traditional name for a person who calls forth a large beast the deals devastating damage in spectacular fashion, that's not viable in an MMO because of Balancing issues, making something OP, making something hard on the system when hundreds of SMNs in a FATE party call our their huge monsters and deal devastating attacks all at once.

This is not a single player game. This is an MMO. That's why SMN is a DoT job.

Hope that answers your question.

That only answer why you can't spam huge effects in battle not why it's DoT.
why hell's fire from an Ifrit Egi should be a huge effect? he's not Ifrit itself if it did damage in aoe it would be enough. Unicorn summon restoring hp aoe... Stuff like that.