Quote Originally Posted by Taranok View Post
Honestly, if the devs wanted to very lazily "fix" the class, making every single spell short of Raise instant cast would go a long way towards alleviating most of the issues it has. I've often described SMN as busier than BRD (It's not if you go by raw APM, but it feels busier), and using parallels like the class being a caster doing its worst impression of an rDPS. So if that's the direction they want to take it, just literally turning the class into a wannabe rDPS would fix a lot of its problems. It will still have terrible flow, but in practice it won't be as bad because you at least will have unlimited instant casts to get everything out reasonable.

They could even copy Bard (a bit) and turn Tri-disaster into an anytime usable GCD that always applies ruination and Bio/Miasma (and, you know, remove Bio/Miasma) and it will be somewhat homogenized with Bard and won't feel like a Caster, but it can limp along in this weird state for a pretty long while until the devs can properly fix the rotation and turn it back into a caster.
Well it is a caster, SMN has to cast something lol. Out of the 3 summoner is still the most mobile of the Magic DPS group.