SMN - Why it is not a very interesting job and not a good upgrade from ACN

[pandabearcat]

Ok, just tried it on a dummy in case I was doing it wrong, it did 264 and I'm lvl 39, what am I missing here. It crit for 394 the second time

264 damage at level 39 doesn't seem that bad.

Most of our damage is from weapon damage...even your GC weapon at 50 will provide a huge jump.

Keep in mind fester isn't "the super nuke" it is just, for us, our hardest hitting single ability.

Looking that the tooltip for it will show you that it has 300 potency at 3 dots. Which means...its great, but not THAT great. Its not going to blow BLM nukes out of the water, in fact, quite the opposite.

I think its roughly equivalent to a 3 stacked Fire 3.

EDIT: just to give an example, I have a GC weapon and mostly DL, when I fester I do about 650-700 damage on bosses. With RS and a crit, I hit for about 1200.