opinions needed. smn or brd

[glim]

oh you guys, clueless kiddies ^.^

summoner dps is so high, you are always equal or higher in threat meters vs other dps that has similar gear, and you have a pet, which is 20-30% of your damage. you are at least 20% stronger than any of the classes.

people also say that summoners have no burst, this is false, there is no in demand nuke to kill low hp mobs sure, but there is a huge burst on your first 1 minute, you have 3 free aetherflows, 2 festers which will benefit from raging strikes and empowered dots that benefits from raging strikes as well + contagioned empowered dots, yes, raging strikes will last 40 seconds on your dots even when the tooltip only says 20 seconds, because of snapshotting, and also, who kills ads on AK nowadays? people ignore all ads on all bosses on AK runs.

EDIT: but do not worry, I actually cherish people who think SMNs are weak, it buffers the inevitable nerfs, the same thing could not be said in the jap forums, they know SMNs are strong, they are informed. the only thing I hate about this is people with uninformed opinions try not to bring SMNs in the group because they think they are 'weak' LOL.