We have finally come full circle, SMN's need help!

[Havenchild]

So I gave in and raided with my SMN just to see what all the fuss was all about. MP management was kinda a small issue during my time (mainly because I main a healer and am pretty comfortable with managing my MP). I'm not claiming that I did an amazing job; just decent is all. A good friend was nice enough to tag along and check my dps (Apparently I was doing around 390-ish on average). The main issue I usually see is that some summoners forego the use of Ruin in favour of Ruin II, and Energy Drain in favour of Fester. Some even opt to use Miasma II. This speeds up the amount of MP drained and how long it will last before exhausting your supply completely.

If you are not running out of MP on a SMN, you are most definitely not optimizing your damage. This is completely going off of what you said as comfortable.
If you are THAT comfortable with your MP in FCOB then you are getting beaten by any smart DPS player even BRDs who sing songs. Yes BRDs that sing still can parse above 400 in FCOB.

You did not understand anything. Of course your attribute points go to INT. My point was that...whoever that doesn't believe that 50ish piety gives you permasustained damage, he or she can try it by reallocating their 30 points from INT to Piety temporarily, buying an HQ pineapple juice and going to a dummy. This will have almost the same effect as if you'd put Piety on your relic weapon.

I'd love to see what you parse with this Piety fix of yours, because I'm fairly sure you're getting stomped out by SMNs who actually use Energy Drain sometimes to stay afloat throughout all fights.