Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLI discussion

[Estelle9lives]

Man...I just picked up SMN and their AOEs seem to be getting unnecessary nerfs. In ST fights, it's not much of a problem, yes, but good grief this is not what I expected. Same with PLD...don't understand the damage nerf.

SMN AOE is absolutely insane atm, I ran Skalla with a friend the other day and they were spiking 18k DPS on trash, at i310 lol

As for PLD, it also makes sense. You shouldn't be able to do more DPS than a DRK and be so close to WAR considering you have a much easier rotation, crazy strong cooldowns and the best utility set of all tanks.

[KaivaC]

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Hmm...I haven't ran too many dungeons on SMN...mostly run trials and Savage on the job.

I don't know about the whole thing with PLD, because we have a situation like this where PLD is constantly going through buffs and nerfs with almost every other patch. Rather than nerf the job, just buff the DRK to get them up to par.

[Estelle9lives]

Hmm...I haven't ran too many dungeons on SMN...mostly run trials and Savage on the job.

I don't know about the whole thing with PLD, because we have a situation like this where PLD is constantly going through buffs and nerfs with almost every other patch. Rather than nerf the job, just buff the DRK to get them up to par.

That's likely why, this SMN nerf is mostly directed at dungeons since there aren't many AOE phases on Trials/Savage.

I think the thing with PLD is that even after they nerfed Holy Spirit at the last patch, it's still too strong on the DPS side of things. Just bringing DRK up wouldn't really solve this problem.

[alimdia]

SMN AOE is absolutely insane atm, I ran Skalla with a friend the other day and they were spiking 18k DPS on trash, at i310 lol

That insanely high number is actually a bug with the plugin, the person in charge is aware of the bug but doesn't know how to fix it. The spike is caused by DoT simulation which has always been problematic.

The bug is random so you'll often see normal numbers.