Hard time choosing my DPSer.

[kukurumei]

It took me 6 weeks to find a Summoner for Coil. Wish more players knew it is an awesome job.

When do you ever need a smn in coil?? They are lukewarm at best.

Turn1:
With current iLvL any job can do it but you want at least 1 melee for LB or 2 melee for double tail baiting
You'll want a brd if your ilvl doesn't allow you to brute force it for slime feeding and ballad, or foe, silence (you need that silence)
Smn does pretty darn badly on slimes, and you may even run the risk of killing to early with too much dotting

Turn 1 summary: smn low on the totem-poll

Turn2: Enrage method makes everyone but the healers and bards moot. 1 Melee for single target LB, 3xhealers normally, and brd up.
turn 2 summary : smn mid-low on the totem-poll

turn3: why bother..

turn4: brds and pld are the only real requirements, but you need at least 1 physical, and 1 magical, and frankly blm's really shine here, since smns got nerfed(both the lost of thunder and the bane reflect was patched) Sure you have shadow flare, but that's pretty minor, and you will never beat a blm with the 3-target bane restriction on phase 3.

Sure you can have titan-egi to bait the rook, but ilvl makes those older tactics kinda...

turn 4 smn summary: mid-low. Blms are just that much better when you have the brd(and it's more or less mandatory)

Turn5: You can do a lot of baiting with pets, and Bane is really really good here, but it's less job specific these days with the ilvl decently good, and the burns are not as crazy.
Turn 5 smn summary: middle

In summary the best dps class in coil is still bard.... only turn1 really can you skip the bard. The others losing a brd is a painful experience.