Some surprising data in regards to SMN dps vs BLM dps

[Furio]

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Why do you quote "ridiculously similar to lifetap" when I never said that? Why are you being butthurt about 1 single ability when the whole freaking class is a carbon copy and anyone denying that is either ignorant, or blatantly 'white knight-ing'.

I even left out Energy Drain and Aetherflow. Hey, what a coincidence! The warlock archetype that is FFXIV's Summoner, also has a spell that works like WoW's Drain Life: Energy Drain! How about Aetherflow? 3 stacks usable for special abilities? Hmmm, feels a bit too similar to soul shards doesn't it? 3 stacks usable for special abilities as well.

DS = Drain soul. Drain soul does X damage per dot on your target. If you really can't see it you don't want to see. And next time you feel like replying, why don't you use all examples given rather than picking one, ripping it out of context and placing it between quotes suggesting I said something I didn't. Nitwit.

Bane is only good in encounters where the adds spawn at the same place and where they have larger healthpools. It's still bad if the adds die in a couple of AoE bursts from melee/bards/BLM.

Very true. If you have 2 blms using flare on garuda's plumes, bane isn't going to be helping much. If you don't it actually works amazingly well.

Using Bio + Fester while Bio II is up will cause BIO DoTs being tracked as hitting as HARD as Fester.

I used the in-battle log to keep track of total damage done on an ifrit hard fight. I calculated the DPS and it was the exact same damage and DPS (give or take a hundreth) ffxiv-app showed. Seems pretty accurate to me. Maybe you were using an out-dated version?