SMN - Most Glaring Issues

[Angry_Evil]

It seems that Bahamut is getting shrink... Just noted on live letter.

I fully disagree with this nonsense.

I think they said you can do it with / command like glamour.
Overall it's pretty disappointing how they were talking about smn. Literally didn't say anything useful or acknowledged any actual job problems...

[Dualgunner]

It seems that Bahamut is getting shrink... Just noted on live letter.

I fully disagree with this nonsense.

I'm hearing it's an optional thing, via text command like egiglams. That said...I wish they went into detail on what they're doing to fix the actual job as well, instead of the aesthetic nonsense :<

[Mature]

Oh wait so it is a glam rather then a shrink? I'm slightly confused

[Mature]

Q10. Demi-Bahamut is quite large. Do you have any plans to make adjustment to his size or transparency?

A10. We’ll make it so that you can change the size of Demi-Bahamut using a text command. I’m sure there will be players who would like the size to remain as is, so we’re making it so that players can adjust the scale on their own. However, we won’t be able to make it by Patch 4.05

I'm ok with this

[Ariomi]

I think they said you can do it with / command like glamour.
Overall it's pretty disappointing how they were talking about smn. Literally didn't say anything useful or acknowledged any actual job problems...

Oh but they Buffing Machinist and Black Mage though.

Machinist will be getting their base damage, turret damage increased.
Black Mage is getting shorter cast times, (Literally just a huge buff. Black Mages stack spell speed anyways) and Foul no longer costs mp.

Summoner literally the dragoon of casters. Except the utility they bring is tiny in comparison..

Oh and they made Dragoon stronger too.

[Cherishes]

I feel like the live letter totally misunderstood why we summoner mains (or ex-mains) are concerned. Looking at JP players' response to the live letter, I noticed that they're saying a few similiar things to us.

1) Bahamut's issue isn't mainly his size. It's his inability to stay where he's summoned and moves as the summoner does mechanics, thus blocking people's views.

2) Titan-Egi is useless without Sustain or Physick or some form of heals for the summoner to use. We don't even need Sustain back. Just add a trait to Physick that gives pets sustain when used on them? Pets are dying and not even because they're standing in front of bosses.

3) Devotion is useless.

4) Is our level 50 aoe really tri-bind...?

Scholars lost their identity and are being fixed, but so have summoners. We've gone from a dot class to an aoe+dot class to.. I don't even know, a ruin spamming class? A burst class? Summoner is the bard of 3.0--some people enjoy it, but some of us who've mained the job since it came out can't stand it anymore.

[Angry_Evil]

Summoner literally the dragoon of casters. Except the utility they bring is tiny in comparison..

And most of our utility is dumb and pointless.
Oh oh here's another good one for ya - compared to 3.0 they didn't even give us ANY interesting skills in 4.0.
Heavensward really change summoner(without all this rebalance PR for 4.0). They gave us burst damage, several aoe skills, a lot of variations and ways to plan fights and use all our abilities. Then they buffed ruin3 to 200 potency and smn became on of the strongest jobs.
But in 4.0 they barely gave us anything. All skills before 70lvl are just meh and bland shadows of our old skills and barely add or change anything to the better. And on 70 lvl bahamut just feels like poorly designed DWT with huge dumb dragon that covers the whole screen. Literally no new ideas, no new spin on the job, only more of old stuff and nerfs...

We've gone from a dot class to an aoe+dot class to.. I don't even know, a ruin spamming class? A burst class? Summoner is the bard of 3.0--some people enjoy it, but some of us who've mained the job since it came out can't stand it anymore.

RUINED MAGE

[Ariomi]

And most of our utility is dumb and pointless.
Oh oh here's another good one for ya - compared to 3.0 they didn't even give us ANY interesting skills in 4.0.

We got new skills in 4.0?

Really? I would have sworn they just took old skills, adjusted the potency on them and handed them back us saying: "Look New SKILLS"

Bio 3? Miasma 3? Literally no different then old dots except weaker. Ahk Morn? Same thing as Deathflare except 100 potency stronger.

Ruin 4? Oh wait... It's ruin 3 but with a different animation and needs to proc first.

Summoner got A new skill. Singular. We got devotion. 5% buff to the healer. Who needs to waste a Cross Class skill for Cleric stance? I got you healer!

[Claviusnex]

Summoner got A new skill. Singular. We got devotion. 5% buff to the healer. Who needs to waste a Cross Class skill for Cleric stance? I got you healer!

Really it is an occasional new skill as it only works if the healer happens to be the closest one to the egi. Don't know about you but I have found it very hard to train healers in a PUG to follow Garuda around.

[Ariomi]

Really it is an occasional new skill as it only works if the healer happens to be the closest one to the egi. Don't know about you but I have found it very hard to train healers in a PUG to follow Garuda around.

If you join a group with only Melee, chances are it's going to the healer lol.

I've even switched to ifrit and still baffled that healers get it sometimes. (I have had healers who run into melee range and stack on my Egi.)