Quote Originally Posted by Bigcat9715 View Post
SMN doesn't have to surpass BLM, but a middle ground would be nice. Even on a single target BLM still out does SMN.
There wont be any middle ground. As soon as SMN gets buffed, BLMs will start complaining. And the cycle begins anew. The community has taken the game out of Final Fantasy. Efficiency is a term for the workplace, not games, but somehow, I don't know where or when, it has seethed into MMOs and strangled everything considered fun. It's all about which job is best.

And this is all on top of using a tool that against the ToS. Nobody is suppose to know how much DPS they do, yet people are on the official forums complaining about weak damage. Out of spite, Square should do nothing about Summoner's DPS. The community is asking to resolve a non-issue it should know nothing about. They wont show pictures of their parses for fear of action being taken against their account, but have no problem repeating the mantra "Summoner dps is weak, it's 50 below Black Mage". It's ridiculous.

Why stretch yourself to be affected by finickiness of the communty? Shouldn't it be about why you play the job? I still enjoy playing Summoner. I guess the only for that is because I don't parse as I'm one of three or four people on these boards that don't have a problem with the job. There have been no threads about Summoner being unable to complete any of the dungeons or raids. All the threads have been about DPS. The community's stupid tool have warped people's minds.