SMN Theorycraft and comparison to Blm

[Akiza]

It's interesting to see that you claim to agree with Craiger yet you completely disregarded Craiger's point on using Extreme Primals as a benchmark to compare Black Mages and Summoners. But that's a bit irrelevant.



I feel like you ignored a large portion of my post: The context of which I addressed Black Mage vs Summoner debate was in the scenario where the player has to choose a job for the raid that they are not comfortable with - that is, progression raiding.

The context of your argument is grounded on the basis that the player will be comfortable with the fight - that is, farm content.

I have no doubt that Black Mages will be able to perform exceptionally in farm content. However their ability to perform and adapt in progression content where there are many unknown and uncomfortable mechanics as well as a more chaotic environment is definitely questionable, and in this regard it is quite reasonable to conclude that Summoners will excel.

It's also interesting to see how you don't want people to disregard Black Mage, but you try to talk down Summoner damage in the sense that you think people will jump ship back to Black Mage when "they see it doing superior damage in a raid setting."

I would like to clarify that Summoner damage is currently no joke - the way that you phrase your comparison as "superior damage" is akin to comparing a melee's damage to a Bard's damage. In reality the damage gap is much, much smaller, akin to comparing a Monk's damage to a Dragoon's damage. If you play with the most exceptional Black Mage and the most exceptional Summoner in the world, you'll likely find the Black Mage dealing a small amount of extra damage. The difference in their single target damage is not as large as you might believe.

The overall difference between an exceptional Black Mage and an exceptional Summoner is the Black Mages have 10% higher single target damage than Summoner which is large but not large enough to make the Summoner pointless. My concern is if SE does a flat out potency buff to Black Mage to fix their movement issues than the Summoner will be rendered useless and have no reason to be in the game.