Aradan Wrote:SMN was a buff-bot/off healer when I was playing it, but then I wasn't graced with Fenrir, which I hear could be a de-buff bot as well as pack a nice punch. Plus I'm sure they added some after I left, which was just before Treasures...
Not really, at least not until this year. Everyone thought they'd add Odin and Alexander, but they didn't.
My first main job was SMN, so I feel your pain.
The hardest part was getting from 40 to 42, because without Cure III nobody would invite me. After I got there, nobody would invite me without Fenrir. Thankfully I had a good chunk of gil from cooking, so I eventually hired "mercenaries" to kill Fenrir for me. 
Even with him, though... as far as most XP parties were concerned, we weren't summoners so much as /WHMs with Auto-Refresh, a couple of buffs with long cast times, and a colossal MP pool. I only got called out for not having Diabolos once on the way to 75, and that from a summoner in my party (yes, a SMNx2 party) that insisted on [Nether Blast]ing every mob. I wonder how he turned out.
Aradan Wrote:But yeah, I'd love to grab the Austere robe again and go hunting with Carby, the Radioactive Squirrel.
Me too! I miss Carby.
Aradan Wrote:I would imagine that they would eventually add a class that uses that part of FF canon. Plus, with only two DoM, there must be more on the way. I don't know what weapon they'd use though. A horn, maybe?
You heard it here first... the summons are called Primals in FFXIV, so the class will be called "Primalist".
I wonder if Primalists will get daggers as their primary weapons. There's no THF anymore, after all, and maybe they really will stick themselves and pay a small amount of HP for [Blood Pact]s. Everybody grab your torch or pitchfork, time to hunt down those blood mages!
