Job balancing?

[dmuller30]

I just don't understand why they'd bother with this, even searching the page for "summoner", this is the only thing they changed. I don't play summoner, I can't say whether it needs buffs or nerfs but this just seems ... weird?

My summoner friends have been anxious about this for weeks and all it is is a change to Elemental Siphon.

lol.

A couple of my SMN friends including myself are raging really hard about this. . . We feel like we literally just got trolled by SE. Just to break down what the skill does is you summon a elemental pet, then you drain mp from it. The only deal with this is once you are decently geared this skill is obsolete . . . . Every event me and my SMN friends go to we never even once use this skill, refresh does it all for us. Our BP timers are so long our MP is practically full by the time our next one comes around or it is full if you have a refresh set. Not to mention with trusts we constantly have refresh thanks to them even if it is only refresh II it manages to keep our mp well over halfway full or full depending on refresh set. I was soooo excited about this update been waiting weeks, and bam its elemental siphon. . . . . Even when soloing there is way more efficient ways of getting mp back. . . Spirit taker/ Myrkr (missing spelling) / refresh / convert. When your pet is tanking while you are soloing which I always seem to have trust out so I don't need elemental siphon, you don't really want to release your pet that is tanking on the off chance that mob might come and aoe you then kill you or barrage you with ailments that won't allow further summoning or recovery time.

[OmnysValefor]

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

The only true mage that it seems like MP is ever an issue for is GEOs in certain content if aspir is not available/reliable--but then you just slow down nuking.

Them and of course BLMs Death-spamming.

[dmuller30]

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

The only true mage that it seems like MP is ever an issue for is GEOs in certain content if aspir is not available/reliable--but then you just slow down nuking.

Them and of course BLMs Death-spamming.

Haha sorry for the frustrated rant. I am also GEO and I agree I am constantly converting sometimes lol. I may just not be good at the job to keep my MP in check :P.