My Concern with Summoner: Aetherpact (Devotion)

[Semmi]

Chances are Devotion is single target. Summoners have a way to buff raid damage in Stormblood through Contagion (which can have 25% uptime), and to a lesser extent Radiant Shield.

[Silverquick]

Chances are Devotion is single target. Summoners have a way to buff raid damage in Stormblood through Contagion (which can have 25% uptime), and to a lesser extent Radiant Shield.

Yeah that will be a problem...

Right now SMN is looking at a 30% or more single target DPS loss as it stands, Ruin 3 nerf, Tri-Disaster and DoT Nerf, Shadowflare Nerf. AoE DPS loss is even worse and in some areas a good 60% or more DPS loss like the Bane and Bilz 2 combo.

The contagion replacement will only give 10% DPS for a raid, which isn't going to make up for the mass DPS loss from SMN's nerfs.

So likely not only, will SMN lose major Single Target DPS and AoE, but will also not really benefit any raid much.

When I started looking around at other Videos I can already see the Red Mage DPS is putting it to shame.

Granted they have directly stated, all things can change prior to launch so obviously we'll have to wait to see the way things play out, And I am hoping they reverse course on this stuff before the game launches.

EDIT: Its almost like the person who was responsible for the SMN thought it was some kind of White Mage or support class and not an actual DPS class. So really hosed up and confused it with the SCH side and didn't realize SMN side is pure DPS, SCH is pure Support so confused them or didn't realize the SCH side was the Support class side of SMN.

[Dyvid]

Chances are Devotion is single target. Summoners have a way to buff raid damage in Stormblood through Contagion (which can have 25% uptime), and to a lesser extent Radiant Shield.

Not necessarily, As everyone has already said, SMN did lose some dps but gains some dps through party buffs. We gave on direct damage but gains through indirect damage. I'm happy with this trade off though I suspect some Hardcore SMN players will move on to something with more visible DPS. I do see them "Contagion" though to something like 5%.