My Concern with Summoner: Aetherpact (Devotion)

[Katsu78]

Dragoons have new ability called Dragon Sight which buffs their personal damage by 10% and a party member's damage by 5% for 15s. This is much better for opening rotations than Devotion as it buffs two people, the Dragoon and the target, while Devotion only buffs one person for 5%. If devotion was, say, a 10% buff, then I can understand why its single target.

Monks get a new ability called Brotherhood, which increases the damage of all party members by 5% for a 15s duration. This, once again, is better than Devotion because it's a raid buff. Imagine if Devotion really was raidwide. Stacking Brotherhood and Devotion would have a 10% damage buff to the entire raid, making the raid shit damage!

Ninja has Trick Attack. 'Nuff said.

Black Mage doesn't have any raid utility exclusive to them as far as I know


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[Katsu78]

Red Mage has embolden, which buffs the Red Mage's magic damage by 20% and the physical dps of the party by 10%, with the percentages dropping every 4 seconds. Once again, it's a raid wide damage increase, and much better than Devotion in its current state.

As for Bard and Machinist, I don't think it's fair to compare as both are support/utility jobs anyway, despite changes to that utility in 4.0

All in all, Devotion is rather pathetic compared to the unique utility the other DPS get (with the exception of Black Mage). Not only that, but it requires sic in order to use, meaning while you're buffing a party member, Garuda could use its new contagion during an inopportune moment, and your overall DPS could drop significantly, or Ifrit using radiant shield during a burn phase where doing the most DPS is required. These possible sitautions make me disappointed with Devotion.

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[Katsu78]

What I want to see changed with devotion, is one thing or another. Have it be active only while the pet is in sic and effect the entire raid. Or, give it a duration, allow its use during obey, all while keeping Aetherpact's 90s cooldown.

That being said. I'm well aware that everything I've said about all of the DPS' raid utilities are subject to change, and I'm well aware that I haven't set foot into Omega or done a lick of any 4.0 content. But this is just a gut reaction from learning how Aetherpact really works. I know Summoner has Contagion and Radiant Shield as part of its utility kit, but if you're going to give a job another piece of utility you should make it worthwhile, and I don't feel like Devotion is worth it. Maybe someone can sell Devotion to me, I dunno.

For those that agree with me and want to see it changed, how would you change Devotion?

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[Raionx]

Monks get a new ability called Brotherhood, which increases the damage of all party members by 5% for a 15s duration. This, once again, is better than Devotion because it's a raid buff. Imagine if Devotion really was raidwide. Stacking Brotherhood and Devotion would have a 10% damage buff to the entire raid, making the raid shit damage!
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To be fair Brotherhood only buffs physical dps. and for what it's worth the tooltip I saw for devotion was in english and was party wide.