Can Summoners Get Some Of These Combat Changes?

[loreleidiangelo]

I know I'm going against the conditions set by the OP here, but I feel like a ton of SMN's problems are basically CAUSED by the weird funky design crisis it has ATM. My personal feelings on which is best aside, what IS "SMN's concept" right now? A DoT mage? Okay, but they took away a ton of our DoTs and rebundled that power into Demi-Bahamut, a burst cooldown. A pet job? Okay, when we haven't gotten any new pets or pet abilities since the job's release? A burst mage with flashy animations? Getting closer, but let's not forget that building UP to those things is a ridiculously long period of using some of the most boring uninspired spell graphics on the planet (Ruinnnnnnnn!!!!).

There are probably potency and QoL fixes they can give to the job to get it's numbers in a workable state; no doubt. But I think it's pretty apparent that the developers have no clue what direction they want the job to go in and that is definitely showing in its problems and playstyle.

[Magic-Mal]

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Maybe they could make it an actual pet class if they fix the pet casts and MP requirements to instant! It's a "cast and forget" right now since casting in battle is an absolute no-no.