To all the SMN QQ

[Kevee]

No I dont think it weak I think IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO START DPS. You need to get all DoT and fester to start getting dps while any other dps class can be doing damage while you are taking time casting? That why they are least wanted in dungeons. That why all of sudden I barely see anyone play summoner in my server it a joke really they need to change the class not that it lacking dps but it TAKES TO LONG TO START DPSING.

Im not in the mood to start a flame war with you obviously you love DoT class because you came from WoW but I never played WoW only mmo game I ever played was XI and XIV 1.23.

No, it's not a slow start. Not any longer than other classes.

lol

What kind of damage do you need to catch up to when you have applied 3 DoTs and used a 300 potency off-GCD skill, while your pet is attacking?
If anything, SMN will be the highest right after 3 GCDs, and other people need to catch up. Again, though, this is just after 3 GCDs. Not saying long-term.

DoTs still tick when you're applying your others, it's not like they wait until you have all of them up and then they magically start ticking. By the time you use Bio->Fester, Bio II would have ticked twice and Miasma once. That's 125 potency on top of 300, on top of 3 pet attacks. That's 725 potency. The only class who can even think to match that potency in the first 3 GCDs is BLM, or a MNK who uses Steel Peak and Howling Fist within the first 2 GCDs. DRG can do it if they use Leg Sweep. We still have other options to increase this further, though, unlike those classes(not to mention using stun CDs for DPS isn't always viable. Hello there, ifrit).

We are the least wanted in dungeons because of people like you.


As a stern example of your ineptitude and that you don't know what you're doing, you never use Miasma II for single target DPS. It's 70 potency vs 80 from Ruin/Ruin II. The only time it's worth it is the second, or third, contagion. There isn't enough time in the first, and if you want to keep using Fester in the long-run you won't be using Miasma II or Ruin II repeatedly. You use Ruin II as needed, otherwise you use Ruin I. In addition to this, you even backed up doing Thunder->Bio.

You don't know what you're doing.