Suggestion, give apocatastasis to SMN instead.

[Akiza]

SMN does not have "spike damage"... unless you misunderstand what spike damage is or are comparing Fester to Ruin... then maybe. Our damage is pretty much just consistent DoTs. BLM has more spike damage than us (considering Fire III/Flare Crits can do significantly more than Fester crits thanks to AF3).

Summoner's damage isn't consistent it starts off high early in the fight then rapidly drops off after 4min while the Black Mage stays around the same level throughout the entire fight. Black Mages see big numbers and huge crits from Fire III/Flare and incorrectly think there bursts but they average out to being sustained damage.

[Ardan]

Summoner's damage isn't consistent it starts off high early in the fight then rapidly drops off after 4min while the Black Mage stays around the same level throughout the entire fight. Black Mages see big numbers and huge crits from Fire III/Flare and incorrectly think there bursts but they average out to being sustained damage.

You don't know what sustained is, do you?

[Skeith-Adeline]

Summoner's damage isn't consistent it starts off high early in the fight then rapidly drops off after 4min while the Black Mage stays around the same level throughout the entire fight. Black Mages see big numbers and huge crits from Fire III/Flare and incorrectly think there bursts but they average out to being sustained damage.

Do you know what a burst is? I'm pretty sure Crit'ing for 3600 is a burst. As is any 2500 crit. Pretty sure numbers see a boost temporarily from it. The only thing that equals out our DPS is our Umbral phase lol.