Quote Originally Posted by Zedd702 View Post
And while I respect his opinion as well as his preference, I respectfully disagree and this is why.

This is how I currently view SMN: Just think as if SE added Thief and threw it into the Rogue class and gave it Steal, Pilfer Gil, Something conniving like a sleep ability, and two other skills... I can pretty much say Thief would get the same complaints that SMN is currently getting due to its lazy design... Its DPS is a separate issue and is arguably debatable, unless compared with BLM (which imho should not out-damage something that conjures ethereal beings that is supposed to do massive destructive damage, but eh)...
I can honestly say I've never thought about it like that, and can definitely see where you're coming from.