I usually play as Ifan, and my main problem with his wolf was that it is summoned without any physical or magic armor. Because of this, it spent a huge amount of it's time crowd controlled.
At least with the incarnates I can give them magic armor the same round I summon then, and then hit them with physical armor the next round. I couldn't help the wolf at all, unless of course I had an earth or water caster to buff him.
I just kind of think for a source ability it should at least have a little bit of armor so he doesn't immediately get crowd controlled.
