The thing is, SMN could've been like FFXI or FFX or FFXII or ANY FINAL FANTASY game. Instead, it's like none of them, at all. All the people looking forward to SMN wanted to play SMN because of those concepts, and yet it matched none of them. It could've been as good DPS as it is now but just been a different gameplay style; a gameplay style that actually matches the Final Fantasy incarnation of the job. This whole DoT thing has absolutely nothing to do with SMN.