Enjoy Summoner before it gets nerfed...

[Fyce]

However at same time its unreasonable to claim that something isnt OP because you can use tank LB to negate damage. Something in standard rotation should not require Tank/Healer LB or Purify. It be like if Barrage + Emp Arrow did 60% DMG to to a tank, then claim its not OP because the tank could of used his LB and negated most of the damage.

When you are facing the burst of a glass canon job, you need heavy mitigation, healing and/or things like Purify to shut it down. I have no idea why you can think the opposite.
There is no better use for a Tank/Healer LB than to mitigate/heal such heavy burst of damage.

The SMN burst combo is not a "standard rotation". It's a big burst only available every minute which completly shuts down the SMN after doing it (would it be successful or not).

Besides, no, you are completly wrong when you say that SMN have great ranged sustain damage. DoTs are a joke to heal through and Ruin II spam wouldn't even kill a paraplegic slug. Plus, with the lack of stacks, you can't even Bane/Painflare, making your overall damage completly worthless. Also, since it's magical damage, they can't even interrupt healers&casters.


tl;dr: SMN is a glass canon with just a burst every minute. This kind of burst is arguably the major reason why Tank/Healer LBs and heavy cooldowns even exist.