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

[Romsca]

lets put this argument to bed. Black mage is king of the magic damage.

Summoner; Shadowflare, Bio, Bio 2, Miasma and Miasma 2 comes to 145 potency per 3 seconds. Summoner must maintain uptime by recasting. Ruin is 80 potency per 2.5 seconds.
Pets are just glorified dots, Ifrit 120pot/3 seconds, Garuda 100pot/4 seconds.

Black Mage: strip away astral fire stacks you can dish 240 potency every 3.5 seconds (fire 3/blizz 3). and you can maintain that infinitely.

Our bio is a total of 240 potency over 18 seconds. Black mage dishes that out in 3.5 seconds with blizz 3 and fire 3. Just strip umbral ice mp regen boost, increase potency of fire spells and increase cast times of all your spells. See how you do then.

Summoners are good pressure dps. But the flaw is they run out of mp in long fights maintaining that pressure then have to lower our dps by using energy drain. Just increase the Piety>MP so summoner is sitting at 4k or more instead of 3k.

PS; just realized I was putting 2.5 for blizz3/fire3 cast time. corrected it to 3.5.

[scarebearz]

lets put this argument to bed. Black mage is king of the magic damage.

And Magic Damage is the King of what?

If SMN's actually want to show how weak they are, would be much better to list comparisions to the other DPS classes, rather than trying to make BLM out to be some super over-powered class lol.

With our "infinate resources" we still get thrashed by melee in end-game content :P


If they gave the SMN job-stone additional Piety increase (mp + mp regain), that would probably solve most of the issues with MP and bring their DPS back on par, without buffing SCH.