Quote Originally Posted by Donjo View Post
1. SMN is great. Don't let anybody tell you differently. Especially those whining about MP problems who refuse to just suck it up and lose 10-15 DPS in order to actually have mana in the longest fights.

2. Bane is literally the greatest thing. People call BLM+BLM the king of speedruns, but I'd actually claim that BLM+SMN is better. It's the perfect blend of AOE madness and Single Target destruction.
10-15 DPS is over 9,000 damage over the course of a fight and no other job suffers from this.
Black Mage has better single target damage then the Summoner since they got buffed in 2.2 and have better sustained DPS then the Summoner.