Summoner Early Post-Launch Feedback at level 80

[NovaBismarck]

Honestly, the more I play summoner the more I hate the tie in to dots in casual content, I just wish they'd remove the whole dps-buff on ruin based on how many dots are up. Overall, if they can do something for dots and the busywork of the class, it'd be a big quality of life change.

I personally am bummed about where damage is. I see non rezzers argue that both smn and rdm should remain where they are on damage because of the rez. Honestly, I don't want them to remove rez (I know some do), but pretending it's some sort of boon to the smn or rdm themselves feels inaccurate to me. It's amazing to switch to a different class, melee or physical dps and not have to focus on the entire party to make sure they are up. Again, I get in savage people shouldn't be dying in content as often. However, those of us that are casual are literally having to watch it all the time in pug content because people die a lot overall. I get things like embolden and devotion counting against us on damage, but should we take a hit because we have the ability to bring people back up at a dps loss? I don't even mind a slight loss, but I don't get high dps classes like blm and mnk arguing that we are right where we belong, on the bottom, with a larger gap between.