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

[ViviAnimus]

I said I was done with the thread regardless, i made my points etc. etc. I simply posted on here just to give you a friendly and teasing "I told you so" you smns keep upvoting each other though, cause thats what it is.

On the parser subject while I'm here,sometimes the setting will freak out on my parser and it will rate summoner, along with dragoon lower than what they actually are, I found this out by always comparing the parses with my pt mates. I'm not sure what causes it though. I use ACT like everyone else.

I have been parsing for weeks now comparing DPS between SMN and never did the results vary greatly. Never. Also, having a SMN do 400 DPS for example and someone has 410 on another, does not necessarily mean the estimate is automatically 410 and therefore the parser represents the SMN's DPS in question as lower by default. That's just not true.
Kona, again the same nonsense. You are coming with the claim that parsers are not working the way they should. The burden of proof is for you, because you made the claim in the first place that the numbers are not accurate. You still have not proven anything, so I look at it myself and only found topics from over a year ago. So, enlighten us. Has anything been done in the meantime? You can also dribble all you want about SMN having the correct numbers. If you should no emperical evidence of this, then how does it even serve as an argument. Where are these numbers then? Who looks at them? What tools do they use? These are all questions I would like to see answered. Because if the numbers are represented falsly, then SE does have an obligation to set the record straight. They know comparative analysis is done and that's the way it should be. So if our tools do not reflect reality, then there is no way as a community to effectively ask for something. So therefore, either you provide proof or SE. Because if you don't, we work with the tools we have. But I will try and figure it out myself as to how reliable ACT has become recently.

Scarebearz, again, has not really been the most logical of people. Imagine, parses show BLM being a lot behind melee. So, in a liveletter, SE acknowledges there are some problems and in a patch, they decide to buff BLM. How do they do this? They do this by
reducing the cost of Thunder III, allowing you to cast it in your blizzard rotation without any issues. Of course this "buff" wouldn't make sense and reducing Ruin I and II has good effects on SMN, but it doesn't change the DPS gap as it should (based on the emperical evidence we have). Then you would say to SE: "it's nice to be able to cast TIII and it increases our DPS by around 5, but is that really it?". Yes, then you are also an ungrateful little kid. How does this even make sense? Do you not try and think before saying things? Still being behind BLM by quite a bit while BLM has infinite resources, again better burst, ST damage and AoE damage, is completely justified. It's that simple. But apparently, the emperical evidence we have, is all false and needs to be relooked upon without actually telling us how. Alright, that's what we have achieved then.

May I also express the humour I see in all of this since you do more DPS (comparative chart) than 80% of SMN with 114 gear and 130 weapon? May I find that funny that people who see that find that rather strange? That you do 50 DPS more on T10 than the higher ranked SMN with 10 lower item levels. That you are 6 DPS lower than T11's highest with 16 item levels lower and a weapon that's not as good? That you do 15 more DPS than SMN's top 12 parse with 15 item levels lower and that you are again only 15 DPS lower than T13's highest parse with a lower ilvl weapon and 16 item levels lower? But nothing is wrong because the parser man, the parser. I am going to say it once more. You people are full of it (both of you). I, who main a BLM, can see that based on the emperical evidence we have, BLM is outdoing SMN easily and that giving SMN better recource management when BLM has the best resources of them all, does not suffice. There.