Why is Summoner the most ignored, misunderstood and broken job?

[Malamasala]

All I have to say is, if you don't exploit that SMN can solo stuff, Danny DRK and Roger RNG still aren't going to feel sorry for you.

Soloing on SMN may be possible, but it is never worth it. It takes you about 30 minutes to kill a KI NM, and you have no triggers to get KI so it is like a 30% drop rate, meaning you need 1.5 hours to get one KI.

Sure, if you go to exp parties and get gold chest KIs, you'll later be able to go pop those item dropping NMs and solo those. But you are again looking at some 1 hour solo sessions, for 1 drop of the type you want.

Overall the fact that something can be done is far outweighed by the inefficiency of doing it. This is nothing different than saying that a SMN at level 50 could craft themselves their own penance robe. It isn't very time efficient, but it could be done. You can't see any level 50 WARs synthing kitty pants.

[Razushu]

Soloing on SMN may be possible, but it is never worth it. It takes you about 30 minutes to kill a KI NM, and you have no triggers to get KI so it is like a 30% drop rate, meaning you need 1.5 hours to get one KI.

Sure, if you go to exp parties and get gold chest KIs, you'll later be able to go pop those item dropping NMs and solo those. But you are again looking at some 1 hour solo sessions, for 1 drop of the type you want.

Overall the fact that something can be done is far outweighed by the inefficiency of doing it. This is nothing different than saying that a SMN at level 50 could craft themselves their own penance robe. It isn't very time efficient, but it could be done. You can't see any level 50 WARs synthing kitty pants.

The pop and proc system kinda smoothered SMN solo in it's sleep, we still have the ability to solo NMs but with craptastic drop rates.