Throwing the tome: 4.2 Summoner Feedback

[TraeSnow]

I'd personally also perfer that DWT merely apply an attack speed buff, rather than a damage buff, making its DoT reapplication timings more flexible, but, more importantly, allowing from a balance perspective Fester, Painflare, and Energy Drain to again be used from inside DWT, opening the way for Aetherflow to be used within as well, assuming sufficient balance changes. I'd assume this would not be without contention, though, as many will have gotten use to the current consequent timings of DWT and SB burst phases, and may dislike a more frequent but less powerful Bahamut, or one that takes 4 Trances to summon instead, etc.

The issue with having DWT apply attack speed buff over damage is that it's actually a pretty big damage loss altogether.

Mainly because:
1. A SMN never hard casts DoTs in DWT.
2. Attack speed =/= Spell Speed - So your DoTs would get no bonus damage from DWT.
3. Currently, the damage buff applies to Ruin 3, Deathflare, Shadowflare and DoTs (Via Tri-D)
4. If they allowed us to use Aetherstacks in DWT again then we'd lose even more DPS because Abilities are not affected by Attack Speed but they are by damage increase - so you'd lose 3 Festers with the damage buff.

Attack Speed/Spell Speed will never be SMN's strong point since SMN is mostly about weaving in oGCDs with their GCDs. It's part of what makes them flexible (And annoyed at how much spellspeed SE puts in gear >_>)