Why Do People Complain About Summoner?

[Music4Therapy]

i don't want to be mean but you don't have to tell how smn works nowadays - fact is that smn changed more than any other cls through-out all the big expansion (maybe Brd/Mch on pair) thats why many are frustrated if learned/masterd things got changed all the way.

Its fine!! lol.

And I can respect that. I was a MCH main in 3.x and I strongly disliked the direction they went with MCH in 4.x so swapped to SMN despite all the complaints about it because I thought the changes looked really interesting. I didn't like the design of SMN in 3.x, it didn't appeal to me. Seemed moreso focused upon damage-over-time as opposed to the playstyle I like... which is cycling through phases and optimizing burst. Which is the kind of class SMN is now. And I have been very happy with the class, the numbers are great, its flows well, and is fun to play. Many classes were changed dramatically with the release of SB, though its the SMN community that confuses me the most.

That said, I do 100% agree with your assessment that is also why I am in favor of the lockout but would accept the compromise of disabling Aetherflow altogether while DWT is active.

[Neela]

And I (...snip...) swapped to SMN despite all the complaints about it because I thought the changes looked really interesting. I didn't like the design of SMN in 3.x, it didn't appeal to me. Seemed moreso focused upon damage-over-time as opposed to the playstyle I like... which is cycling through phases and optimizing burst. Which is the kind of class SMN is now. And I have been very happy with the class, the numbers are great, its flows well, and is fun to play.

This also could have come from me ^^

I started on Brd in 2.0 after I finished ARR MSQ I swapped main to smn/sch and never left smn since than through all the ups & downs - and yeah i kinda liked all 3 different episodes of the eorzea-summoner. that being said I think I was one of the less like you who already liked the 4.0 summoner way - now with 4.1 I like it even more although personally I would just have had used the pvp-profil (mechanic wise not pot wise) for pve as well... *dream* - but never the less I can understand most of the complains although they don't seem that critical to me. The only thing which bothers me is that Bahamut still acts like he's on dope... if it comes to moving : (