Summoner
Summoner is probably my most favorite Mage job. It does what other mage jobs do, just through the form of Avatars. A great bonus to Summoner is the fact that all actions made by the Avatar only gives Enimity to the Avatar. You still incur a very minimal portion through use of the actions to command the Avatar, but that's it. Up until 70 Summoner is essentially a half-ass White Mage with a few additional buffering capabilities. Once you hit 70 a whole new door opens up to you, and at 75 you can gain access to some very nice merit bloodpacts, turning you into a very safe Damage Dealer.
The only downside to Summoner is the fact it takes a long time from time of Summon, to bloodpact execution, then time of recast. It used to be much worse when both offensive and defensive bloodpacts where on the same timer, but SE changed that and it is much better now. Most popular sub for Summoner is White Mage, for obvious reasons. Few have known to sub Black Mage as a deterrent to not be asked to be main healer to a party.
For the moment I'm only using Summoner vs. Kirin and KS99 battles but as new situations open up to me I might find Summoner more appropriate to use.
Summoner / White Mage
The only downside to Summoner is the fact it takes a long time from time of Summon, to bloodpact execution, then time of recast. It used to be much worse when both offensive and defensive bloodpacts where on the same timer, but SE changed that and it is much better now. Most popular sub for Summoner is White Mage, for obvious reasons. Few have known to sub Black Mage as a deterrent to not be asked to be main healer to a party.
For the moment I'm only using Summoner vs. Kirin and KS99 battles but as new situations open up to me I might find Summoner more appropriate to use.
Summoner / White Mage