Surely if I play a mage class it will be SMN.
I love the ambivalency of different pets offering different roles to the class itself. I just hope the gameplay revolves more about buffing / synergizing with your pet rather than sitting and doing poor nukes every other then, because if the pet is truly (as a DPS) 80% of your damage, there is a risk their spells are not tuned to be significant.
Let's hope that isn't the case. We are a dps class and our pets are the bulk of our damage.
SMN? suck my nipples?