So about Summoner...

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But people continuously overlook (or simply dont understand) what the advantages of each class are and rather say "but look at parses, RDM is useless after prog", even though those numbers are meaningless for them personally. RDM still has a very clear advantage for progression raiding, and as a whole the balance between casters is relatively ok. Some of the very best RDM players (including Jump) continue to say RDM is in a good place and it has its role.

I think the problem is that even though, RDM has it's advantages, SMN is really just a jack of all trades. rdm is strong for progression, however it's not so strong that it dominates the prog scene which is good because we don't want jobs monopolizing anything. SMN seems oppressive because it's the best caster in FARM by the "communities" standards while still being a very solid choice for prog too.