Quote Originally Posted by RyuDragnier View Post
I'm by no means a SMN main, but I do wonder, would changing Spur to having the same cooldown as Rouse and increasing the potency (and thus MP regen ability) on Energy Drain be enough to bring up the class enough? Or would the DoT potency of Bio, Miasma, and Bio II need to be played with also?
Energy Drain's MP restore is a fixed value, no matter how much damage it does. Unless the damage calc is worked into its base potency somehow, a potency buff won't help it. Well, it won't help the mana issues, at least; a potency buff would certainly mean it's not as big of a DPS loss to use in lieu of a Fester.

I personally don't think Rouse and Spur need buffs... A SMN can maintain decent uptime on both of those with their current CDs. SMN's biggest damage comes from Fester, and I think that move is what the dev team needs to address. Up its potency, remove it from Aetherflow dependency (with an increased CD, obviously...20 seconds seems all right to me), add potency to it from Miasma II and Shadowflare applications; SOMETHING.