SMN - Most Glaring Issues

[Sylvain]

The death issue is IMO the most pressing issue. EF stacks and DWT should carry over death. So that you just continue your DPS when you get rezzed.
It would be nice also if DWT would allow the use of EF skills. Maybe putting all the skills on CD when you use one but at least. You can spread your dots, fester and do aoe.

[Talec]

I'm a bit surprised the Live Letter didn't mention any changes to SMN. Bahamut-Problem seems not priority, even tough I wipe whole Susano Ex Groups up to Abandon or get kicked. Aetherstacks Problem doesnt even get mentioned, beside while they confirmed once again, that DMG should be based on complexity. I'll wonder how the patchnotes gonna look. Did they really have forgotten us?

[Angry_Evil]

I'm a bit surprised the Live Letter didn't mention any changes to SMN. Bahamut-Problem seems not priority, even tough I wipe whole Susano Ex Groups up to Abandon or get kicked. Aetherstacks Problem doesnt even get mentioned, beside while they confirmed once again, that DMG should be based on complexity. I'll wonder how the patchnotes gonna look. Did they really have forgotten us?

Summoner is an afterthought for a while now(or always was? hm)

[Neela]

I really wonder how they will change smn in reference to "harder jobs should be rewarded more"... they tried this with the sss parser hp with smn on 3rd place after smn/blm but... sadly its just dps in theory until now - let's see if they change anything at all, without taking smn into concern in the last live letter... : /

[Mature]

The only thing I would tweak from SMN is Devotion. Allowing me to chose who gets it rather than a free for all.

[paradigmfellow]

I really wonder how they will change smn in reference to "harder jobs should be rewarded more"... they tried this with the sss parser hp with smn on 3rd place after smn/blm but... sadly its just dps in theory until now - let's see if they change anything at all, without taking smn into concern in the last live letter... : /

Didn't they say they were trying to make the jobs less complex overall? All they did was eff it up even more with SMN.

[Alisi]

Summoner is an afterthought for a while now(or always was? hm)

I disagree. There has to be a great level of insane planning that went into this job to make it so terrible. I don't think anyone could just fall over and make so many painful things to this job.

Designer 1: Next up, SMN! Any ideas?
Designer 2: Oh, I know! Let's give them an incredibly clunky aether gauge of horror. If they mess up on one stack, they'll be punished with a minute CD.
Designer 3: We can also make all the animations long so that they don't get the full value of those seconds. Imagine the tears of the SMNs when they try to cast Ank/DF when they still have time left and FAIL! Bwahahah!
Designer 2: That's WONDERFUL! Let's also leave the Egi out on the field until Bahamut's animation is over so there's a chance it'll die and waste a two minute set up!
Designer 1: And we'll have to give them very hard hitting abilities and ZERO ways to negate that damage. Healers love that shit. Still... We need more...
Designer 2: We can make Baha fill the entire screen! Fun for all!
Designer 1: PERFECT!

[Dyvid]

Everybody wants to be a Summoner but nobody wants to be a Summoner......

[AstralKaos]

My isue with SMN is literally everything. The patch notes weren't a good sign, but I told myself it'll be not so bad and it just seems bad on paper; oh how naive.

Without going to town in this comment, I will be brief (not very constructive I know) and just say - revert it to HW SMN. I don't care why the changes were made, I don't care for defensive reasoning or even softening of the blow; the class feels gimped to me now. Everything is completely unnecessary that was changed.

The top offenders are: The overly long cooldown on Aetherflow. The trash that has become Bane. Paper skinned pet that vanishes for no reason and dies easily with no heal skill available. The overly long cooldown on Shadow Flare. The gigantic Bahamut.

At the very least the timer on Aetherflow should be reverted, as well as returning Shadow Flare to how it was; I can live with the other mutilated limbs if they fix that at least.

[Mature]

Dreadwyrm Trance

Aetherflow actions are no longer required to inflict an effect on a target to gain Aethertrail Attunement.

Whoopeeee..................and we got a big of nothing once again......