Things That Annoy Me As A SMN

What are things that irk you on your class ? As a SMN I'd have to say:

- In AoE situations, When my target dies before I am able to apply Bane.

- When I prematurely Fester Before Bio fully applies ( I know about the delayed application, but it still happens sometimes)

- When Tank runs out of Shadow Flare thinking its a Mob Attack. ( You'll be surprised at how often this happens)

- That Enkindle has such a long delay before it acutally cast .

- That Sometimes Enkindle is wont cast at all although the cooldown started ( Does this only happen to me ?)

- And the #1 goes to: Tanks that dont use Flash/Overpower in AoE Situations.

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When Tank runs out of Shadow Flare thinking its a Mob Attack. ( You'll be surprised at how often this happens)

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That's not SMN specific. Noob tanks and melees tend to run away from all kinds of AoE effects. Esp. bard's Flaming Arrow.

What annoys me the most, is the quirky pet behavior in some instances. First rooms of CT, for example.
Even being set on Place/Obey Garuda-egi just loves to fly away and die from poison.

What I found even stranger is that if I have it on steady and cast a healing spell on it, it will fly off and try to attack anything that I (or the party) has aggro on. You have to keep calling it back. Silly little Egi.

The AI for summons can be so troublesome. For example, when I'm in conflag phase during Twintania fight, I'll tell Garuda to attack the conflag (or dreadknight), and after that, she decides to come over to me on her own (as if she had nothing else to do) especially at the wrong time when fireball is coming up. I guess I forgot to use "obey" back onto Twintania, but thing is I don't use "heel" to have her come over.. Sometimes the pet AI is a bit unresponsive to the point where I have to spam the button for contagion constantly; it's kinda frustrating, but can't do a lot of damage without the summon. *shrugs*

The thing that annoys memost, is the fact that most Party Finder parteis doesn't even want Summoners to EX primals. And one time I got a Titan EX party from PF, we had 2smn's 1 blm and a bard. Bard and other healer were constantly whinig how we won't make it cause "too many casters, and 2 f*king summoners" and we ended up killing titan on first try.

And the fact that pets die nearly instantly on the 1sr part of CT cause of the poison pools.

And the general "summoners are worst dps". Me and few fc mates (paladin and scholar both ilvl 90 and I was i86 at that time) we wanted to do one HMHM, but didn't get other dps, so we got some random from PF, we ended up locking the other dps out of the last boss, 'cause we were rushing the run, and the three of us killed the last boss and adds easily.
And then, most times when I DF HMHM I'm on sch, dpsing as much as I can on last boss, we still fail to get the adds down fast enough.

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Originally Posted by FurryFury

What annoys me the most, is the quirky pet behavior in some instances. First rooms of CT, for example. Even being set on Place/Obey Garuda-egi just loves to fly away and die from poison.

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I hate the bone dragon room for this too! No matter what my summon flies straight through the poison after he dies.

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Sometimes the pet AI is a bit unresponsive to the point where I have to spam the button for contagion constantly; it's kinda frustrating, but can't do a lot of damage without the summon. *shrugs*

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I have found that the delay is actually due to your pet already casting another ability. I used to spam contagion as well losing a lot of DPS from lack of Ruin, but then later figured out if you only hit it once he will go ahead and apply contagion after the current spell casts.

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The thing that annoys memost, is the fact that most Party Finder parteis doesn't even want Summoners...

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Yeah, I find this funny too even though I have gone into turn 5 and consistently put up #1 or #2 DPS against people that have more allagan drops than me.

for CT I just park Garuda on a safe spot and don't let her do anything until we're killing the dragon.

As for pet peeves, the delay on using contagion/enkindle. Especially enkindle's. If I want to use it on a dps conflag I have to try casting it before it even appears

Things that annoy me when I've played as SMN:

Seeing other SMNer's spam RUIN 2 and don't dot and then justify that they are a pet class so they don't need to. at 50.
Mind YOU THIS SMNER was in TURN 5. They have not won yet - I am glad.

But that bug where Garuda just runs off, in this glitch like habit and return to my side. I always think OH SHIT I PULLED on accident. Nope glitch. lol

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Originally Posted by Mirakumi

But that bug where Garuda just runs off, in this glitch like habit and return to my side. I always think OH SHIT I PULLED on accident. Nope glitch. lol

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That's a very specific spot in T1. Just moving past it and heeling your pet will allow you to avoid it.

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Originally Posted by Mirakumi

Things that annoy me when I've played as SMN:

Seeing other SMNer's spam RUIN 2 and don't dot and then justify that they are a pet class so they don't need to. at 50.
Mind YOU THIS SMNER was in TURN 5. They have not won yet - I am glad.

But that bug where Garuda just runs off, in this glitch like habit and return to my side. I always think OH SHIT I PULLED on accident. Nope glitch. lol

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For the sake of playing devils advocate they are right they did sign up to be a summon class not a dot class.