Summoner Fixing The Egis

[Kitru]

Titan- add a earth aoe attack that leave a 20s heavy dot which puts it at the top of threat table.

Not gonna happen. Regularly used provoke mechanics are pretty strong when you get down to it (since it basically renders the need for most high enmity abilities redundant); making it an AoE that also deals damage is just nuts. If it were to get something like this, I would expect it to get a single target Provoke that has been weakened significantly compared to the tank one (6y ranged instead of 20y; 60 sec CD compared to 40 sec; potentially require it to make a check to hit rather than being auto-hit).

Also, simply adding extra attacks doesn't "fix the egis". You're just straight up buffing them when SMN (and by definition their egis) are already plenty strong. If you want to talk about "fixing" them, you need to realize that there will have to be trade offs, either by getting rid of something the SMN gets (and just SMN; you can't change the ACN without also changing SCH and SCH is incredibly well balanced) or something that the egi itself gets.

[AmyNeudaiz]

Also, simply adding extra attacks doesn't "fix the egis". You're just straight up buffing them when SMN (and by definition their egis) are already plenty strong. If you want to talk about "fixing" them, you need to realize that there will have to be trade offs, either by getting rid of something the SMN gets (and just SMN; you can't change the ACN without also changing SCH and SCH is incredibly well balanced) or something that the egi itself gets.

I don't even play SMN but half the changes Akiza wants would destroy my favorite job Scholar, which is why I voice up in every thread this person makes.

[Akiza]

Also, simply adding extra attacks doesn't "fix the egis". You're just straight up buffing them when SMN (and by definition their egis) are already plenty strong. If you want to talk about "fixing" them, you need to realize that there will have to be trade offs, either by getting rid of something the SMN gets (and just SMN; you can't change the ACN without also changing SCH and SCH is incredibly well balanced) or something that the egi itself gets.

There aren't going to be any changes to the Egis until the level cap is raised so it won't destroy balance because other classes will get new abilities and buffs anyways adding one new ability to the Egis will only increase damage by 20% which would put the Summoner back to where it was when it had thunder.