Quote Originally Posted by Dyvid View Post
You keep saying this but how is it dropping? To my knowledge the game doesn't have diminishing returns after a set time so DoT potency should remain the same.
Because Mana, because in FCoB for example where you need to push your DPS as much as possible, SMNs will go OOM very fast due to needing to use Fester to actually try and get decent numbers, so Aetherflow for mana regen ticks is very limited compared to SCH who can sit on aetherflow stacks a lot easier. Also no AF stacks=no Fester so your DPS will drop during that time.

SMN DPS using dots and ruin spam is consistently, problem is, it's constistently low in comparison to other classes due to mana issues (albeit we will never have 100% true figures until individual dot tick damage is displayed in the combat log).

SMN could do with either a dot that drains mana to the caster, a pet HP sacrifice, sacrife xx% pets HP that converts into caster mana.

Our long term SMN changed to BLM because he knew he would be more useful as BLM in FCoB than SMN. Something that shouldn't need to happen.