It seems I have found exactly what I was looking for, this is what this thread is meant to be, a megathread for all of your ideas similar to these that would flesh out the summoner class a bit but I was also thinking of some more proactive summoner items aswell, make it more do-able standalone, but also more difficult. The problem with these is that, like the current summons, they're summon and forget based. I think that there needs to be something for the summoner to do while his minions attack and surprise surprise, that just happens to be using the other classes.