Quote Originally Posted by Akiza View Post
The Summoner is the weakest DPS to play now while Black Mage has an easier rotation.
For the record, I think that SMN does need a little tweaking, even if I disagree with spamming the hell out of the forums after the point has already been made a dozen or so times.

As for as BLM rotation, don't neglect to mention that while BLM rotation involves fewer abilities, player skill in maintaining their casting uptime as close to 100% as possible is the true challenge in playing BLM. The BLM players who comment the most on forums and are successful in end-game are the minority; I believe that most players are pretty awful at the class and are doing well if they can maintain 350+ DPS even in Syrcus Tower, let alone Coil.

Personally I find SMN to be more newbie-friendly as long as the player can manage to watch timers and reapply their DoTs at need. A mediocre SMN will outclass a mediocre BLM if they can get at least that right since their damage will be ticking while the poor BLM is probably still recovering from the Flare/Transpose he thought would be a good idea to use on the nearly-dead, stand-alone mob.