Quote Originally Posted by Xaeth View Post
You pretty much take and replace ruin with Rouse, Spur, Enkindle and Shadowflare when fitting. Is that what you call a different playstyle?
Two of these abilities does pretty much the same thing which is a damage boost to your pet and one is a nuke that you can use once every five minutes.

Sure Miasma II, Shadowflare and Enkindle is a nice improvement to Summoners AOE capabilities but they hardly change the playstyle.

And if you want to invalidate my argument you might wanna add how these abilities make such a huge difference in playstyle. Just naming abilities isn't an argument in itself you know.
The fact is that all of these abilities can and will also be used on single target under certain conditions as well as being used in AoE, therefore they can and will alter the playstyle depending on the situation, which is something that any remotely competent summoner will tell you. The fact that you claim:

Quote Originally Posted by Xaeth View Post
I can promise that there's no bloody difference in playstyle between summoner lvl 40 and lvl 50
speaks volume about your actual knowledge of the summoner class.