Quote Originally Posted by Phoenicia View Post
SMN in Stormblood not only lost the ability to stack Bio II with Bio, but it also lost Raging Strikes, 20% (or was it 30%?) is not something to scoff at. Especially since we could contagion to extend our "super DoTs" which included Miasma II (and Potent Poisoning Potion if people remember this) which we also lost. So if you sync'd at 50 and still kept RS and old contagion, I doubt you'd only get around 500 DPS. Heck, our main mechanic of Dreadwyrm Trance resetting our Tri-D to reapply DoTs without spending GCDs isn't available until 60. (I say "our" because I was a SMN main for most of HW and until 4.4 hit when I changed back to tanks and SMN is my current off-spec).
That's a good point. I didn't consider the loss of raging strikes (That seems so long ago), but by "High 500s" I meant around 580 ish.


Quote Originally Posted by Phoenicia View Post
IMHO, most jobs are unplayable under 60 now-a-days (mainly because it feels VERY restricted with all the "fun" things are so back-loaded. Warrior's IR and DRK's TBN come to mind.).
I agree, though it's kind of funny how similar SMN felt to BLU when sync'd. They both have the idea of "get your dots up, blow your burst attacks and then filler until it's time to start over again".