Quote Originally Posted by Red_Wolf View Post
Everyone says this to try and appear more experienced. And then someone chimes in with how SMN and BLM were nerfed after WD.
except BLM damage has been recently buffed. the nerfs to BLM CC was also just universal CC nerfs.

BLM aside, the SMN nerf was to stop nonstop raises from non-healing jobs/classes. Disease nerf was needed too because the effect from Storm's Eye and Disease stacked and with the heavy effect and you turned into an unhealable slow moving deadman because you recieve -66% heals.

How can you not understand how good SMN burst is? like if you sit down and do the math you can do 300 + 80 +150 + 80 potency in about 4-5 seconds and that's not counting the pet's damage which is another 100 potency. I would say thanks to the damage buff BLM beats out SMN in burst due to firestarter and phantom dart but SMN still has a hefty single target burst. even if you don't kill they're stuck with disease to recover from and dots still ticking.