So about Summoner...

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@Zerathor, Dualgunner I editted the link, failed miserably my copy/pasting.

Well timed raid buffs can be very powerful, but we're talking about the best players out there. I'm pretty sure that in a much less coordinated team (PU group, casual / midcore static ?), a BLM can bring as much damage as a NIN because lots of people don't actually know how to use raid buffs efficiently.

If you boost BLM's damage to be competitive with DRG, BRD or NIN raid+personnal DPS at the highest levels of play, it would be quite OP in a less optimized environment, because you wouldn't need your team to coordinate that much to deal stupidly high amounts of damage. That 900 rDPS trick attack seems OP because the whole team is maximizing their rotation around it. Take a random pick-up group, and TA will be a plain 1.6% rDPS boost.

EDIT (cause too slow):

you just don't get the point that complaining about smn won't solve blm endgame situation - no matter how hard u try or how personal u get. you can talk about flogs statistics and compare them to death for the next two weeks and it won't change anything

People complaining that SMN > BLM can actually complain that SMN, BRD, NIN, MCH, DRG, MNK > BLM