Dev silence about SMN

[Shizuna]

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Yeah, ok, that's great and all, but do I have to look into every single Japanese article/interview to see this? Why do SMNs have to wait at least 3-5 months for a fix? There's just something wrong with this. All I wanted, at the least, was a piety increase and enkindle CD lower. Is that really so hard to ask for? I know MP won't solve everything but that's the very smallest thing I wanted to see if SE cares.

I'm bitching so what? I actually played this class through t10-13; I didn't down all the turns until a month ago, however I know how this class is in end-game content. My opinions are that this class is somewhat weak and needs to get some sort of change now. It shows in the hardcore/highly progressed community that there aren't many SMN left. I only know 4, including me, and 95% of all statics that have casters will be BLM. The class is dying and the only people who are playing it are ones who likes the class despite all these apparent flaws or can only play this class cause they can't play anything else. And I would fit into both those categories, more likely the latter.

My static-mates do really high dps and I compare my dps to them and to hardcore players since better results gives you more insight to what each classes are capable of doing. My static DRG and NIN does at least 500-550, even though they're at low ilvl 120, and my BRD sometimes does equal to how much I do even when playing songs, granted he's at around ilvl 126+. I do around 450-480 dps, but I have to try so damn hard to do that and I'm not even sure if that's good enough.

When I tried t10-12 on BLM, I didn't have to try or think so hard. It felt like I could relax more playing BLM. I'll probably just switch to BLM once I get a better weapon cause my static knows I'm decent at both caster classes. I'm pretty much done struggling with SMN; it impacted me more when I had to do progression with it...