After years of playing Summoner, I'm shelving the job and here's why.

[Angry_Evil]

I'm updating what I said before in this thread since I've now cleared OS1 (havent moved on to the others yet). Sure, I didn't wow with DPS but I don't find this job bad enough to give it up. Never gonna leave Smn behond (:

I cleared O1 and O2S with smn and it changes literally nothing that was said about how poorly designed smn is now...

Just to be clear we are talking about waiting for an additional aetherflow stack before summoning demi in order to push the waves right? If so I find it odd that the get max power we need 3 stacks of aether and not just the initial cost of 2 even though I don't argue the testing and math behind it. If anything that itself feels clunky. If we have the power to summon demi after 2 stacks we should be able to use the summon to its full ability at the 2 stack mark. If I am wrong in what you are inferring I would very much like someone to correct me though!

Even if you just r3 spam while bahamut is summoned it still should be dps boost. Other than that yeah it's pretty clunky and poorly implemented. It boggles my mind that we need 3 stacks 3d and ADDLE and ping(PING) to fully realize bahamut's potential. How ANYONE can think it's a good idea... And if it's not what SE intended then it's even worse design lol.

[ToasterMan]

I haven't seen a SMN or BLM in DF at all in a long time now. Been seeing plenty of RDM's though.

[Revanslave]

I cleared O1 and O2S with smn and it changes literally nothing that was said about how poorly designed smn is now...

I never said anything about that at all. I said it's not bad enough to quit playing my favorite job.