Why is SMN DPS so high?

[Yenn]

Serious question. It seems to be the highest in the game right now.
With Amdapor Keep gear and relic weapon, I'm consistently pulling around 250 DPS on all primals. Other classes with similar gear are capping out around 160-180.

Should other classes maybe be brought up a bit, and SMN brought down a little? Unless AoE is required, there isn't much reason to not take 2 SMN + 2 BRD or 3 SMN + 1 BRD.


EDIT: Because this thread is a cesspool of retardation, I just spent 10 minutes at Coerthas, writing down the damage values. Criticals were omitted.
Ruin averaged 177.3 damage, 2.3 second cast
Bio + Bio II + Miasma averaged 260 damage, every 2 seconds (this included criticals).
Fester averaged 659.7 every 20 seconds
Garuda averaged 177.4 every 3 seconds

This totals 299.19 DPS. This is not including 10% crit rate, though some time is spent re-applying DoTs.

This is in line with what parsers are showing, accounting for time casts are interrupted to move, the bosses are invulnerable, and reapplying DoTs.

[Eristina]

Hi,
I use a parser, but i can't fucking look in the details and understand my dps.
So i don't understand why i'm so high and mb there's something bugged.

But better post on forum ill be a star

[Rover1983]

Wait.... huh? Summoner dps being high? Am I dreaming or is this a joke? Sorry but were currently lower tier dps. Others can disagree but most, if not all the other dps classes out dmg us currently. And no dont say bad player. Has to do with skills doing shit dmg, too long of a ramp up time to get our dmg going and lack of pet dmg.

[Eristina]

The parser is bugged, it wasnt taking into account Bio I & II. Now it does but wrong amount. It count Both of them for 100+ dps, and it's wrong, they are at ~50 dps.
Pet is 50 dps.
SMN is 70-100 dps without bio taken into account.
So a smn dps is around 180, like every other dps class.

Read details and understand the game before claiming false shit.

[Malix]

Wait.... huh? Summoner dps being high? Am I dreaming or is this a joke? Sorry but were currently lower tier dps. Others can disagree but most, if not all the other dps classes out dmg us currently. And no dont say bad player. Has to do with skills doing shit dmg, too long of a ramp up time to get our dmg going and lack of pet dmg.

Bad summoners are lower tier damage. I find myself having to use quelling strike sometimes.

I run Amdapor Keep with a BRD, and we kill the Demon Wall before it spawns flies. I think you're just playing with bad players.
In this particular case, I do much more damage than the BRD, because the encounter is so short that starting with 6 Aetherdams is huge.

your lieing, the wall spawns flies at the next knockback once it at 50%. A BRD with relic +1 and full allagan wouldn't even be able to do that.

nothing outdamages blm. and not just any blm, but a blm who knows rotations cannot be beat. smn is fine it doesnt need nerfing at all.

biased opinion is biased.

[Astralis]

Hmmm i dont have relic weapon and only have af armor. But im pretty sure i deal around 300+ dps


Summoners are the weakest among dps classes right now so pls stop trolling

[LunarEmerald]

Hmmm i dont have relic weapon and only have af armor. But im pretty sure i deal around 300+ dps


Summoners are the weakest among dps classes right now so pls stop trolling

dps = damage per second. you aren't doing 300 damage every second because of the 2.5 second global cooldown.

[Hov]

dps = damage per second. you aren't doing 300 damage every second because of the 2.5 second global cooldown.

I think if you spend enough time on the forums you devolve and what you just said starts to make sense. To be honest I'm scared that it might happen to me

[Yenn]

Uh what? I added my damage break down, from the battle log and floating text, in the main post. This was tested on dummies on Coerthas.

[Seraphi]

Uh what? I added my damage break down, from the battle log and floating text, in the main post. This was tested on dummies on Coerthas.

So you hand wrote all your damage numbers, in Coerthas (ie: Mobs that don't have innately higher resistances to everything), and did teh maf?

This is the cutest thing I've ever read on these forums.

Note, I'm not 50 SMN yet, and I actually don't think the damage is that bad... yet, but this is ridiculous to draw any sort of viable conclusion from.