Quote Originally Posted by Lavieh View Post
Yea, SCH is in an excellent spot, It may be hard to buff SMN without Buffing SCH's.... But there has to be a creative way around that.
Changes like these are part of the reason why it's difficult to balance SMN properly because any changes to the abilities will affect both and SCHs really don't need any buffs.

Things that come to mind that may help the job directly:
-A PIE multiplier tied directly to the SMN soul crystal. This will give you higher MP for better Aetherflow / native MP regeneration. I imagine since "stat growth" is tied to the class / job, it would be just a matter of S-E tweaking the PIE value of this variable to be more suitable
-Adjust Tri-Disaster to be something in vein of Elemental Siphon of XI fame. Something that gives you MP back on command by having your pet out. Perhaps give it an HP drain effect that converts the HP into MP from your pet to add an element of "risk" to using the ability.

On a different tangent, here are some random thoughts in regards to the topic as a whole.

Adjusting Spellspeed to be beneficial to SMN
-Spellspeed is a dead stat for SMN, meaning itemization later down the line will eventually make all the SMNs go "...are you s---ing me?" with the over abundance of SpS in the current gear tier. This will happen on occasion as long as SpS remains a dead stat for SMN. Thus, the better recourse is to adjust how SpS may benefit SMN instead of having S-E look at every set of Caster gear and say "Well, we'll never be able to use SpS ever again because Summoner".

Adjusting for the Future Classes
-One of the complaints I've seen in the thread is the fact there's no point in BRD singing Ballad for the DPS, as Paeon would be much more beneficial. Playing a little's Devil's Advocate here, would that complaint change if there were more MP based classes that don't have infinite resources like a BLM? For example if they released Geomancer which is another ranged DPS using MP as their resource and then Red Mage as a melee DPS with en-spells that slowly burn their MP for melee damage. If your DPS was SMN GEO RDM BRD, this would make much more sense for Ballads. It's something with implications much further down the line, but perhaps worth a topic of discussion and consideration.

Disclaimer: I'm no Summoner, I just like theorycrafting / discussions about balancing~