Can someone give me an in-depth explanation why Summoner is arguably the worst DPS?

[Xisin]

actually every class but smn benefits from selene its quite easy to observe... well maybe not bard since they sing more paeon then lol but skill speed is not entirely useless and is actually weighted not terribly. but you saying fcob isnt short term is simply repeating what I said in my post. My point with interrupting thunder 2/3 is simple though when it happens blm drops to 0 dps flat, I do believe that never happens to summoner.

I find the variance in your numbers hard to believe, for someone claiming that you cant go over 470 in turn 10 but can pop over 500+ on t13, either you suck really bad at 10 or you are fudging your numbers. Also just 5-6 days ago you claimed 460 on t13. Were you dead?

you saying its easy proves my point quite well, it makes it moot to discuss difficulty. All jobs in this game require little mechanical skill to begin with, they're all relatively easy... Thus why I say difficulty does not matter, and how its completely incorrect to base balance on it.

Summoners should still stick with one or two threads like most jobs have done in the past. It's a little obnoxious. As of now there are 6 threads about the same thing on the front page of the dps forums, and if I bothered to look at general I could probably find one too, is that necessary?

one last edit though: if meteor didn't exist and the cube in t11 didn't exist would groups bother with a caster at all? I don't think so. The only redeeming factos casters have currently is they are good at add phases, which blm has locked down pretty tight in the aoe department, despite that solid melee dps players are still enough to bypass any aoe phase fcob throws at them, this means smn does well too. in actuality during burst aoe phases melees can adequately keep up, I know of a drg and nin who can chase my 900-1000 dps on shiva adds with 700-800+ of their own during the phase, all the drg requires is a goad and the nin can do it solo. The only unfortunate things about smn is mp issues and that they scale negatively with group strength due to the nature of dots. Then again its the same thing as a blm flaring a 1k hp target for 4k, the difference is that the parser credits the blm for the 3k worthless damage applied there.