Written summoner Guide

Hello all ,

Do hope all is well. I wanted to ask if anyone can point me in the direction of finding a written guide for the summoner.

smn_resources on the Balance Discord has much info.

Some of it:

5.0 Endgame Beginner's Guide by Elevation Xx and Eydis Darkbane
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...ebMAI75pEdkBdc

Tsundere Imouto's Stopgap Guide
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...AWaLeIi_5q7Wig

Summoner 2 minute Cycle:
https://elevation.s-ul.eu/1X8CeZ0V

Thank you much :)

Personally, would enjoy seeing guides that don't just focus entirely on end game. I know it's kinda asking a lot, since most wouldn't go to the trouble of leveling again to have a good grasp of what's available at various levels. But man. Leveling from 60 to 70 recently felt awful, not really understanding how some bits were supposed to fit together.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Personally, would enjoy seeing guides that don't just focus entirely on end game. I know it's kinda asking a lot, since most wouldn't go to the trouble of leveling again to have a good grasp of what's available at various levels. But man. Leveling from 60 to 70 recently felt awful, not really understanding how some bits were supposed to fit together.

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Honestly these guides are fine for lower level SMNs because you basically do the same thing except you can't access either Dreadwyrm Trance (pre-58), Bahamut Phase (pre-70) or the Phoenix Phase (pre-72) depending on your level.

In fairness, at least in this situation, you are correct. I do attribute my recent frustrations with the chaos that is current SMN. I sorta get the gist of the rotation foundation. Keep DoTs up, use basically any oGCDs that aren't on cooldown. Maybe it's just the prevalence of double-weaves that really bug me. Maybe it's just that I'm not really a SMN main, and just want to understand it more than optimize it. Maybe it's just not my style. Maybe I just need to spend more time with it. Dunno.

I think the double-weaves are a lot worse now so it's pretty unfortunate that you tried out SMN in its current state. It was a lot simpler and steady back then and honestly as a SMN main since 2.x, the amount of double-weaving and sometimes triple-weaving I have to do now is tiring.
They are planning on making the job less busy (probably with the ogcds) so I hope that makes the job more welcoming to play for people, but yeah you might want to spend more time with it because I was in the same boat back at ShB launch, but I'm used to it now (but it's still a struggle).