[Yoona]

spira, on 21 August 2009 - 12:56 AM, said:

Dengeki labels it Ogre.

Summons will be part of the story again (they almost always have. have been prominent elements in FF6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12)
but summoners and other pet-based classes will have to wait, since they've yet to fine tune the most basic of class aspects in XIV yet.
furthermore, a pet-based class would have to be built on top of the existing 4-class structure somehow, which would be rather hard to balance out, i think.. because technically, weapons are indeterminant of what pets can do.

like mightyg said, XI took 1 expansion before it could iron out Summoner, altho it did have Beastmaster already at the time (which was impossibly overpowered), SMN ran into a whole lot of balancing issues from the day it was released.
I trust SE has more experience now with XIV to be able to implement classes that are balanced enough to work properly, but pet-based classes are tricky to balance in itself, so we should give them time to work at it.

after all, XIV is only 40%+ complete.

I'm really hoping that they get it right this time. SE has now had some experience with MMOs and they've seen how pet classes work in other games. Hopefully that means when they do add SMN it'll be a good class.