Summoners, what is your playstyle like?

are you guys mainly dotters/ aoe spells kinda similar to locks in WoW?

I never played Warlocks in WoW, but Summoner is a pet/DoT focused damage dealer, yes.

Well first I press 3, then I press 4, then comes 2. Now here I might press 5, or I might press ctrl+6 and then 6 depending on what we're doing. And it just gets complicated from there.

We're frequently compared to an "affliction warlock".

Basically we stack the mobs with DoT spells, and use the special abilities of our pets to help out.

MB7 MB9 MB8 2 3 4 MB5 5 ALT3 ALT5 ALT1 MB2 ALT1 MB5 1 1 ALT1 ALTF+Click


But in seriousness, we apply DoTs and then do some frontloaded damage until we need to apply DoTs again. We interact with the pet every minute for Contagion, or if we need to AoE, otherwise we don't interact with the pet at all.

Sit in Rev's Toll, notice all the groups asking for BLM, reroll to BLM.

That is basically how SMN playstyle goes.

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Originally Posted by Squa

Sit in Rev's Toll, notice all the groups asking for BLM, reroll to BLM.

That is basically how SMN playstyle goes.

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Which is sad because SMN is really fun to play. :c

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Originally Posted by Aravix

Which is sad because SMN is really fun to play. :c

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Nothing sad about it. Just because a bunch of idiots want BLM , doesn't mean they have a reason for it. Most of them think you need Sleep and Flare to clear WP quickly, and they're just wrong. I routinely out-DPS BLM in WP, even when pulling 3-4 sets at a time. Where BLM excels in groups of 5+ targets, you make up for and them some on single target boss fights.

I'm glad people re-roll from SMN to BLM because of stupid stuff like that. It filters some of the people out of the class that give it a bad name in the first place.

I mean these are the the same people shouting for Relic+1 Bards...

Damn, I hated SMN. But I only leveled Arcanist for Scholar anyway..

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Originally Posted by Exstal

Damn, I hated SMN. But I only leveled Arcanist for Scholar anyway..

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Well thats useful.

On Topic. SMN is a fun job and if you think you can manage to cast and move and not clip DOTS you'll be just fine. Remember..... Always Aetherflow before the fight.

Whatever happened to just play a job you enjoy and who cares bout everyone else. Yes play your class right, or to the best of your ability... It's game all... Just have fun.

Clipping DoTs doesn't even matter in the long run, if you remember to clip only at sub 1 second.

Depending on your luck with server tick times it may be more dps to clip slightly than to lose it for a fraction of a second.

Depending on the fight too it is not a dps loss to delay ruin and just wait to make sure you don't clip at all.

Shrug.

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Originally Posted by Kevee

But in seriousness, we apply DoTs and then do some frontloaded damage until we need to apply DoTs again. We interact with the pet every minute for Contagion, or if we need to AoE, otherwise we don't interact with the pet at all.

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We also have Cooldowns that effect our pets DPS, that we should be using on CD.