Quote Originally Posted by Akiza View Post
The Summoner is broken in terms of balance because there is no point in bringing them to Raids besides nerfing your party. The Summoner use to excel at single target damage over the Black Mage until the Black Mage got buff. Now the Black Mage excels at both Single Target and AoE Bursts Damage which leaves the Summoner with nothing.
You're talking in exaggerations. Given your dots and the possible use of Ruin II you can keep up most of your DPS - for a short amount of time due to mana-constraints - while being exceedingly mobile.