I Love 4.0 Summoner. A lot.

[Dregenfox]

Red Mage has Embolden, which is a buff to all physical damage for 20 Seconds. Starts at 10% and dwindles down. Summoner brings 2% Physical damage increase with radiant shield, or contagion which is 10% magic damage increase for 10 seconds. You will hardly notice either buffs.

I read on reddit test thread that Radiant shield actually reflects damage off both aoe magical and physical attacks, but doesn't show up in parser. If true summoners are doing ~150 or so dps more that's not included in fflogs, which could account for why their DPS looks so low. Especially with the 3x physical meta and nerfed contagion it just doesn't seem worth it to bring garuda over ifrit.

Anyway it's still worth it to consider these buffs since the ifrit shield can account for as much as 5% of a summoner's dps contribution. Though yeah the garuda magic-only buff seems lackluster in comparison, prob 1% at best.

[Ariomi]

Anyway it's still worth it to consider these buffs since the ifrit shield can account for as much as 5% of a summoner's dps contribution. Though yeah the garuda magic-only buff seems lackluster in comparison, prob 1% at best.

As a Summoner, I have never seen Radiant Shield Proc off anything Magical. The only exceptions are things like Sophia's tank buster, which count as physical? In Susano, During Lightning phase, only auto attacks seems to proc it. And Radiant Shield would be more like 1-2% of a Summoner's dps at maximum. Even if you were to include 50 potency scaled from a tank.

[Dyvid]

I read on reddit test thread that Radiant shield actually reflects damage off both aoe magical and physical attacks, but doesn't show up in parser. If true summoners are doing ~150 or so dps more that's not included in fflogs, which could account for why their DPS looks so low. Especially with the 3x physical meta and nerfed contagion it just doesn't seem worth it to bring garuda over ifrit.

Anyway it's still worth it to consider these buffs since the ifrit shield can account for as much as 5% of a summoner's dps contribution. Though yeah the garuda magic-only buff seems lackluster in comparison, prob 1% at best.

This is correct but FFlogs is finally shows the damage but it's added to the player hit not the summoners. On average the dps from RS is equal to Flaming Crush, Crimson Cyclone, Inferno (......), and even some fights it creeps up to shadow flare levels.