Huge SMN nerf: we're losing Thunder

[Kevee]

I'm going to be fair and say we did need our numbers adjusted. We also have major game-breaking issues that need to be addressed, and weren't.

I will say they WENT AFTER IT THE WRONG WAY.

-Sustain costing MP. We already have MP problems.
-Change to Allagan Boots. Why would you change the piece TWO CLASSES have access to, instead of changing the AF2?
-Loss of Thunder. We now don't even have 5 useful cross-class skills. Now we can use Ruin more! How fun! This by itself is a ~10% loss in DPS, and a massive reduction in how active the class/job is.


Things that need to be fixed:
-Pets get no benefit from food.
-Pets get no benefit from passive party buffs based on job/class.
-Ifrit is useless.
-Titan is useless, except for soloing.
-Titan/Ifrit suffer from a skill bug where it has a 4s CD instead of 3s for their main attacks.
-PET RESPONSIVENESS
-Pets have a MUCH HIGHER accuracy cap than the player.

Anything else I forgot? I can't think at the moment. Ugh.

Allagan boots changes is a nerf to both of us. Please do note BLM got nerfed and freeze changes does not make it any better than the garbage it was and still is.

How is it a nerf to BLM when your AF2 has the SAME STATS?
Are you kidding me?

Just cast more ruin.

One cast of ruin is 3x as weak as one cast of Thunder.

You can't cast "more" ruin.

It's ONE CAST.

It's a loss of ~10% DPS, and makes for more BORING gameplay--As if we don't use Ruin enough already.





**** this daily posting limit. Ugh.

So mad, I want to tell off these people that don't know how to play.
"Just cast more ruin"?
I hope you're joking.
"Thunder wasn't useful."
Yeah, I know who to never take seriously again.
"Sustain change isn't bad."
LOL

Wth are you talking about? SMN has slow burst, but has the highest overall dps of all classes. Parser with equally equipped/skilled players confirmed that multiple times.
I rarely used Thunder in my rotation since I only use it when all other DoTs are up and I have Fester on cd. Of course it's a nerf (not 10% of the overall damage i must say, maybe 3%), but SMN dps was the highest.

Now it's Ruin II spam when you have DoTs/Fester up for more burst (that is actually what SMN lacked) and 2% less overall DPS (to be proven).

I think it's still the best ranged DPS in the game (if you can use it).

Another person who has no idea what they're talking about.