SMN - knowing the class (part 1)

[nimuniverse]

I know. People complain without learning the class. They expect SMN to be like BLM, a straight up spell caster. We are not. We are DoT. Granted pet control should be better and that there are skills like an eye for an eye, which kind of sucks since I don't really use it. People these days don't think and they just want to press a button and when they can't, they complain. I am glad some of them rerolled BLM. Don't want sucky SMN pulling the class down.

[Kevee]

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I can't agree more.

I carried an AV run yesterday(trying to get a better weapon than my 44 GC before I run endgame stuff..) with another SMN. It took roughly 40 minutes, so that is "okay" for a pug.

I don't have any idea how the SMN thought they were playing correctly, but it just reminded me of this forum and how I imagine most of the posters play.

The person would use Bio II and then Bane on trash packs, and then spam ruin. When asked why, they said "Trash mobs die too fast to keep other DoTs up."

They kept Garuda-Egi out on Sic so it would randomly KB mobs that I pulled aggro from.

Never used Miasma II.

Never kept DoTs up on bosses, just kind of applied them when they felt like it. I didn't really see any CDs used, and certainly not Raging Strikes.

Meanwhile, here I am doing ~3-4 times their damage and pulling aggro off the tank on bosses, and single-handedly carrying the whole instance. Miser? Not a problem. Just need to pay attention to what mobs your DoTs get spread to when you bane.


It just..boggles my mind.



Edit: SMN is probably the least casual-friendly class in the game, and it really needs a strict rotation and proper timing to be done properly. That's where I think all the complaints are coming from.

[Dixa]

We are DoT. .

which is why unless yo uare in a full group you will never do better than bronze on the large fates like odin, svara and behemoth and why the class will be outright shut out unless you are a scholar when it comes to 24 man raiding. debuff limit appears to be about 35-40 and every class brings 3-4 debuffs. each.

it baffles the mind that square is this stupid, to make the same mistake blizzard made that turned warlocks into nothing but stamina bots in vanilla wow. a mistake made nearly 9 years ago.