We have finally come full circle, SMN's need help!

[Xisin]

Pretty much this. Anyone who says that SMNs have 100% uptime clearly doesn't have a lot of experience.

Nope. I played smn quite a bit when 2.2 was relevant content. I can tell you that dropping a gcd on blm is way more punishing than dropping a gcd on smn. This rings especially true if you are forced to move in ice mode on your thunder cast. (long cast time, and punishing because it fucks up your next chain.) IF any spells is dropped during the 50-70% cast time it hurts that much more, because your dps literally drops to 0 for a whopiing 4+ seconds, minus thunder dot active, and well if it is your thunder cast your dps is 0. Smn never runs into that situation unless they die, and then their dots falls off while dead.

Why summoners have heavy uptime:

Pet is always attacking, letting your pet die is on you not the job balance, especially since it can be moved at any time without dps loss
If one gcd is miss its usually a ruin, you can ruin 2 while moving anyway - not a huge deal, if you are missing the 3 dots again not a big deal it doesn’t screw up your dps for the next 5-6 casts as a result. If you miss 3 gcds in row sure… but why are you missing 3 gcds in a row?
Even if all your dots are down your pet is still attacking
Even while you are dead your dots can still be up
During limit break your dots should be up
Fester, your biggest nuke has no cast time
Energy drain has no cast time
Bane has no cast time
Ruin 2 has no cast time
bio 1 has no cast time
Your swiftcast is a thing to use it on cd you’re not a blm that needs to hold every other swiftcast for flare.
SMN IS the 2nd most mobile dps, and are really good at dealing with mechanics, stop downplaying that.

The two jobs should not do equal dps, BLM needs to be higher dps in order to stay viable when compared to summoner.