Summoner Over-Nered (and A few other Problems)

[Neophyte]

And if the top summoner, which is currently at 4k dps, is compared to the other classes, it's clearly lacking. You can say oh well Summoner has better Aoe, except that deathflare was nerfed, and bane was nerfed heavily. Bane wentfrom 110 potency per tick to 80 potency per tick with increased fall off damage per add. Oh and Summoner's strongest spammable Aoe (Meaning not requiring a minute, two minute or three minute* cooldown) is 30 potency.

Doesn't change the fact that an add at the right time is a 600-800 potency gain for SMN, while it's a smaller potency gain for RDM or maybe none at all (e.g. he has opportunity costs if delaying Contre-Sixt, other than a SMN delaying painflare).
Adds don't rain randomly from the sky. Usually people know when they come up.

A SMN in a A9s similar fight would do the adds almost alone without any single target dps loss (maybe 100-200 pot), while RDM and every other class has way higher costs for tossing some AoE out or are way weaker doing that.

Bahamut and DWT, as well as the usage of Painflare (i.e. "your stacks") is at least a bit flexible. As long as you don't delay the usage of aetherflow itself you can delay your oGCD rotation without too much loss.
A SMN has, without much trouble, always the big boom ready when he needs it.

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A SMN can adjust to such things with big dps gains liberating all 7 others players from bothering about adds, what can a RDM do? He can switch to scatter (wow) when adds are coming up and maybe can use his 200 pot cleave, but therefore lose his strongest single target spell (Verholy/-flare Needs a single target melee combo).

A fight like A1S with two targets up for 75% of the fight or big adds in A12s? Advantage for SMN (and BRD as well).

Stop looking at training dolls or just 1-2 (quite similar) fights..