Shadowbringer: Summoner Changes Discussion

[Gallus]

I kinda wish Firebird Trance reduced cast times to 0, or by like 95% or something.
Then channeling Phoenix would make SMN as effective of a Rez mage as RDM, which would be fitting in multiple ways.

Welcome to 0.25 fountain of fire and brand of purgatory casts (?).
Welcome to "oh my FBT just expired but somebody died after that, here please, wait a a couple minutes until I have insta raise again".

Come on?

[Seraphor]

Welcome to 0.25 fountain of fire and brand of purgatory casts (?).
Welcome to "oh my FBT just expired but somebody died after that, here please, wait a a couple minutes until I have insta raise again".

Come on?

They still have Swiftcast for out of FBT... like it currently is?
So what's the downside?
SMN, like RDM, can raise if and when they can, it's not their priority, they're not healers, but it's an option when it's viable. This would just make it more viable more often, and provide an option other than RDM for prog...

Otherwise... what's the point of Resurrection?

[Gallus]

You are asking for the possibility of a most likely useless 90% of the times situational rezz for 20 seconds every 2 minutes, for lore purposes (...), knowing that this wouldn't come for free (meaning they'd probably take some of our DPS away) and it wouldn't either even come close to competing against the RDM permanent instaraises.

You might want to give it a second thought.

[xxPheNoMeNa]

This would just make it more viable more often, and provide an option other than RDM for prog...

Giving SMN the ability to "chain raise" in the same fashion that RDM can will only nullify the one advantage RDM actually brings to the table for end game content. Basically, "why" would you ever bring a RDM at that point? So long as resurrection continues to exist for SMN/RDM, then it needs to be balanced around the fact that RDM "lacks" in most other areas compared to SMN and therefore "needs" the better raise utility to remain relevant.