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

[Aikaal]

I know you are really convinced and trying hard but...

Yes, antibody sucks. But my summoner supervirus still trumps black mage and white mage virus in the event that an add spawns and scholar supervirus is on cooldown. I can think of a few times when there are adds in a boss fight and when more than one spawns.

There is not a single add that is worth virusing in this game that deal magic damage except the Sin at T13 that don't even matter. You'd still prefer Apoc the warrior for an Ahk Morn over a second super virus.

Next e4e becomes stronger the more people in the group that use it. Let's limit it to just acn, sch and smn. That's 1 minute up time 1 minute down time. Now, sch, smn, whm, blm have it and all in the group. That's now 3 minutes up time, 1 minute down time followed by all 4 cooldowns being finished.

This is true but you can,t relly on E4E. It's a proc chance. It is useful during adds phases like T12 and T13. WHm and SCH already have it. What,s the point to have two characters with two minute CD E4E? You don't need it up all the time.

And right now, no fixes or changes or adjustments or whatever from Square Enix, yes using resurrection is bad for summoner, except if for some reason both healers are down. It is flawed because of our mana pool size.

Yet again, it's a spell that both healers have. They have better mana then you and they'll take priority over you. In farm content, people don't die also.

Finally, let us look at the value of the cross class skills smn/sch <-> blm. Surecast sucks and I don't need nor want blizzard 2. So only thing left of value from blm is swiftcast. Smn/sch gave up virus and e4e, both have decent value. How about blm give up scythe, swiftcast, sleep, and manaward. To sweeten the pot blm can have e4e, virus, resurrection and ruin.

• Surecast has uses. It's not a waste. It was potent in T5.
• Blizzard II is 50 Potency per target. It's potent in AoE for SMN. Miasma II, Enkindle, Shadowflare are up and you contagion + bane on 4 targets (Like T12 and T13) 200 Potency > 80 Potency. Blizzard II is shit for BLMs.
• Sleep has no use in raid.
• Manaward is my level 30 ability jerk.
• Resurrection would give too much utility to BLM and I wouldn't even use.

Point is, utility skills are valuable when you use the every single time the are off cooldown, and in the case of virus when antibody is not present.

Any good Scholar will refuse someone to slip Viruses on the boss. It will screw him over.