Summoner likes and dislikes, an attempt to compilate thoughts on Summoner.

[Trensharo]

Two biggest issues would be :

1) Loss of Titan as a tank has rendered this class nearly unusuable in the open world. I died to a FATE in Lakeland because I did one AOE spell and got all the agro and no way to heal. Titan's shield is useless. Physic is useless.

2) Way too many buttons! For AOE, you have 7 buttons : Outburst, Painflare, Bane, Deathflare, the AOE energy drain, Garuda's 2 Egi Assaults. That is just too many.

Completely noticeable when trying to do some quests, like those "fight in a ring for 12 rounds." If you end up taking too much damage you can fall completely behind the encounter, because you spend all of your time trying to Physik up, and your DPCT is too low (compared to, e.g. a BLM or even a RDM). That was okay when you had a pet that could rip agro off and allow you to free cast for 5+ seconds. It's not the same with this weak shield and having to literally tank everything. The whole point of playing a Summoner was that you didn't have to do that - otherwise, BLM and RDM are WAY better - as they "blow stuff up" more reliably/faster in this kind of content. Also, Vercure is actually good.

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People are acting like Ruin gets 80% of its potency from the DoT... Please stop these exaggerations about it "basically doing no damage without DoTs on the MOB." That's utterly silly.

The mechanic is awful, but... seriously.