Quote Originally Posted by Saiken253 View Post
If they do say have the MAB trait, it's definitely not as strong as a BLM, otherwise my BPs without TP would be doing damage very similar to a BLM. However just more MAB isn't all that SMN needs. Natural pet Double Attack/Triple Attack would be very much welcomed, just to help give our pets more TP for our magic and healing BPs. Also, Summoning Magic should more greatly affect our pets. Such as more ATK, ACC, MAB, MACC, Defense, MDB, Evasion, basically make Summoning Magic be something along the lines of every skill that we use as a character, our pets use; but scale it down a little cause it would indeed be a little too good to say have my near 500 Summoning Magic also count as near 500 Evasion(much higher than even a THF) at lvl95. I'm just trying to think of ideas to help this job come up to speed with the other jobs in a situation outside Soloing so that it becomes more appealing to have in a group again.
It's the same strength as a BLM.

Your BPs without TP don't do the same damage as a BLMs spell for two reasons. 1) BLM wears a bunch of MAB gear and staves, on top of their traits. 2) The BPs aren't spells. They're elemental WS that just happen to share a name with spells.