Summoner Fester

Good Evening Fellow PvP'ers and SE,

One huge concern I have over Summoners in the current PVP scene is that Dreadwyrm stacks will at times be blocked by cover. How do you ask? Well its simple. If I am bursting a target and a paladin decides to cover that target. When I use fester, both the damage and dreadwyrm stack doesnt applies. Why? Because the game thinks I am targeting the Paladin through cover when in actuality I am targeting another target.

Why does this matter? Well its simple. When said summoner doesn't get a stack of dreadwyrm it in turn doesn't allow us to go into dreadwyrm trance because we do not have 3 stacks to enter it which basically screws over our burst for a minimum of 45 seconds.

So What can be done to fix this? Allow fester to give a stack of dreadwyrm trance regardless if it applies damage or not. This would be a huge quality of life fix for Summoners in PVP. No other class in PVP gets punished like this. SE, this is a change you must make.

As a Paladin that PvPs a lot and feels Paladin is in a good spot where it is - I support this change since it feels unbalanced for SMN. Easy fix.

It's strategy, you have to react to the situation, the PLD can exploit the weakness of a SMN by taking the Fester hit of the target you had intended to hit. There is nothing wrong with that. As you use Fester since you're hitting the PLD and they don't have DoTs, they take less dmg.

Same with Piercing Talon, should a PLD take 2k dmg because the target they are covering is at 10% HP? No, it should only be the worth of who the target has changed to.

Truth is you as the SMN you could just use Energy Drain rather than Fester if you know the PLD is covering the target or if you are in a situation in which you think the PLD could be covering your target use Energy Drain. What's more important? Losing some DPS because you have to use Energy Drain rather than Fester or losing a stack Attunement because you chose to use Fester. The options are there for a reason, you aren't disabled from gaining attunement if you react to the situation properly.

DoT both. I skip Miasma III.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MVXu3Z10Os

There’s ZERO interactions between two abilities that has SUCH a huge impact and is SO detrimental to one class (SMN) besides this lol

Having one well timed Cover “which isn’t hard to do” can set a SMN back

- 3 Aetherflow usages
- Delay Dredwyrm Trance
- Delay Bahamut

That’s BOTH of SMN’s Burst phases delayed by at least a minute + a full Aetherflow usage since you miss out on the stack you used into cover then the new Aetherflow usage only refills the 1 slot that is available

“It’s stragety” comment is laughable to be honest lol it doesn’t matter if the SMN should “just not fester into cover” hurp durp lol it’s WAY too significant of an impact for this NOT to be addressed

You recommending to energy drain into a covered target shows that you are probably just a frontline hero who complains about Healers being OP so I shouldn’t even be responding to you because your opinion is irrelavent but this issue has been triggering me for way to long and needs to be addressed

IMO Cover should still mitigate the damage but actually give the Aethertrail charge if the intended target has the required Dots applied

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Originally Posted by PappaSmurff

IMO Cover should still mitigate the damage but actually give the Aethertrail charge if the intended target has the required Dots applied

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But you’re not hitting the target with your dots.

thankfully this issue got fixed. Because it was simply that, an issue that needed to be fixed. To those who don't understand consider this. Why does a blackmage get to freely cast Fire 4's into a covered target applying full damage to a PLD without hallowed ground yet a smn should sacrifice that damage because of the fundamentals of the class? How is that a balanced system? Just because you don't comprehend why this change is good for balancing doesn't mean its wrong either. This simply evened the playing field between summoner and every other DPS class. We aren't gimped anymore by well timed covers.