I fear for Summoner

[Dyvid]

I question for the hardcore SMN. How much of a DPS hit is it if you add Aetherflow > Energy Drain X 3 every 3 or 4 rotations? I did some test on Dummy and found that restores around 1400 mp with my current gear set.

[Akiza]

I question for the hardcore SMN. How much of a DPS hit is it if you add Aetherflow > Energy Drain X 3 every 3 or 4 rotations? I did some test on Dummy and found that restores around 1400 mp with my current gear set.

After 3 or 4 rotations a Hardcore Summoner will have around 800 MP which means they were ruin spamming while keeping up DoTs. It's around 150 dps over the course of an encounter.

[Lavieh]

After 3 or 4 rotations a Hardcore Summoner will have around 800 MP which means they were ruin spamming while keeping up DoTs. It's around 150 dps over the course of an encounter.

For my current gear, Each Energy drain is roughly a 8-10 DPS loss per use over Fester.

8.3 DPS loss if your fest is doing 1000 and your ED is doing 500

[Viviza]

I question for the hardcore SMN. How much of a DPS hit is it if you add Aetherflow > Energy Drain X 3 every 3 or 4 rotations? I did some test on Dummy and found that restores around 1400 mp with my current gear set.

I'm not a hardcore summoner but I'll throw some numbers at you. At i110 my energy drains hit for about 500 while my festers hit for about 1000. At three times a minute that's a difference of 1500 damage, so a loss of 25 dps in exchange for 798 mana. Those numbers are without using any buffs, not in a group, not using food, not including crits, and not with the very best gear. If we say that my DPS with all those would be maybe 50% higher, then the actual loss would be maybe around 35 to 40.