Quote Originally Posted by Aviendsha View Post
SMN is a PET JOB everything you do should be to help the pet not you. You are nothing the pet is everything. What Jeff is saying is hey lets be DRG where the pet does decent and master does all the work. I have pure DD like drg to fight front line the fact is that SMN is a back line job. I like that you think outside the box but the fact remains that the avatar is the star of the job not the smn.
only time a SMN should melee is when they are soloing NMs and want to proc blue during blunt time, or maybe that odd chance the red proc is earth crusher and you have the right subjob for it.