Summoner is the most fun, highest DPS and awesome side-support job.

[Kalandros]

I remember on release, I made my arcanist to be summoner. Everywhere on the forums the threads were about how poor summoners performed, etc... mostly due to people thinking parsers were the perfect thing to determine actual performance.

And now I still see threads complaining about the class itself, even though it does a stellar job in raid content, with the highest damage output (less burst than BLM but overall, more damage than either BLM and BRD) and one of the best toolbox for the different situations you might encounter.

Sure, the summons themselves are inferior forms of the primals themselves and compared to previous FF games, it is a bit disappointing, but the gameplay of the class keeps you busy constantly, with a much longer rotation to keep you from the boredom that other jobs have: BRD is just too simple, BLM is just too repetitive too quick.

Apply DoTs, keeping track of them, using Contagion and Bane carefully, launching your gas cham- I mean shadow flare and sometimes just for fun you can close-in for a Miasma II while spamming your Ruin II on the move.

Fester is a good burst but is still giving place to Energy Drain when the BRD is either non-present or dead~

The Job itself works really well with all its skills, and there is still much more I want to test eventually but we'll need UI improvements and mods for that hah.

So stop whining about how summoners are, there's no reason to, the class is well designed and has a great internal balance and good synergy with not only their own skills but also other players' skills. Can't get enough of that Foe's Requiem!

[FCrowles]

I'm sorry sir, are you lost? This is the forums. The only thing allowed here is letting everyone know how weak your class is, letting everyone know how awesome you are by making everyone else look horrible with a horrible class and complaining.

[DaSwen]

Please enlight me : Foe requiem works on 'unaspected' damages? Because when i read the description of my spell, it says :

Reduces all enemy elemental resistance by 10%.

I need to run some tests, but i m at work atm.

[glim]

Please enlight me : Foe requiem works on 'unaspected' damages? Because when i read the description of my spell, it says :


I need to run some tests, but i m at work atm.

I've tested it, it works on all our spells except shadowflare, works on pet attacks as well including enkindle.

[Marcusow86]

Throughout my game play in FF14, i have rarely encounter any BRD that will use Foe's Requiem. :/

[Tua]

My summoner friend loves my Foe Requiem, especially under Battle Voice. My puny bard can only dream of such crits.

[Kalandros]

Yea, crits. And DoTs crits. Pretty good deal.
And the ladies really dig the horn.

[Woodberry]

I think the smn is going to dominate at pvp. Ranged mortal strike + heavy debuff + ranged blind is going to destroy everything. Not to mention they can all be used AOE style.

[Elizabeth]

Agreed. SMN should be perfect for PvP. Lot's of possibilities to start the fight and the amount of debuffs is ridiculous.

[PessimiStick]

even though it does a stellar job in raid content, with the highest damage output (less burst than BLM but overall, more damage than either BLM and BRD) and one of the best toolbox for the different situations you might encounter.

Unless I've missed a stealth hotfix to the combat log, you can't actually back this up. Parsers (both of them) are necessarily inaccurate because the combat log is junk and omits things. No one *actually* knows what the highest DPS class is.