SMN needs to be addressed ASAP

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Originally Posted by Llugen

tl;dr, but SMN is the strongest single target caster if executed to perfection.

The implication of this is that SE completely backfired if their goal was to "make jobs simpler".

My suggestion would be to make it function more like PVP summoner where you can summon bahamut after every DWT and then just cut his potency in half.

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Summoner is so far away from being the strongest caster in any regard it's silly lol. Summoner isn't the strongest anything.

https://www.fflogs.com/statistics/15...036&dataset=99

You can click through the different ranges and percentiles, but Summoner is normally 200 dps less then both Red Mage and Black Mage. Not only that, But anywhere at 60th percentile and below, Summoner's have the lowest dps. At 75th Percentile they are around the third lowest dps and don't have the utility to make up for it.

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Originally Posted by Lastelli

Primals and in general all aetheric beings have a different power level depending on things like the amount of crystals and the intensity of emotions used when summoning them. The fact that the bahamut you summon isn't as powerful as the one we fought in 2.x makes perfect sense lore-wise, since you're not recreating the original prima in the final coil. SMN needs some fixes, but akh morn's potency isn't a problem...and 1k potency for something you use twice in a 13 seconds window would be just silly.

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Ahk morn has an effective 1min 7 second Cooldown if you play 100% optimally and phase changes don't push bahamut summoning back. You forget there is a 2minute built up to summon him, that and potency is 2/3 of actual listed potency. Not saying I agree with what was proposed but when you judge do keep this information in mind. (Aka smn balancing is a convoluted mess)

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Originally Posted by Ariomi

Currently Ahk Morn is a false 680 potency. In reality it does around 544 potency. (My rdm and smn are the same ilvl with 320 weapons and my 550 potency Verflare/Holy does more damage) Blacky's Foul is on a 30 sec cd and does 650 actual potency.

By the time Black Mage has done 4 Fouls (Totaling 2600 Potency) Summoner has done 2 Ahk morns for about 1088. If Ahk Morn was 1000 potency, and you could still perform two of them it would still be 600 less potency then Foul.

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yeah this would be kinda fair imo... also the idea of MagiusNecros would be nice giving the 2nd ahk morn a more impactful meaning... the whole cls is about building up dmg until the big bang finisher right? so make the big bang finisher at least BIG BANG - but a bing bang currently weaker than Deathflare... is kinda underwhelming : /

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70 skill should do twice the damage as the 60 skill. No excuses. Or put a debuff on first akh morn to have incentive to use 2nd one for bigger damage.

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