SMN 5.1 Job adjustments

[Karshan]

Should've, could've, would've.... SMN is what it is.

Indeed : an iteration not true to Final Fantasy ; the name have you expect something different. Hear me I wouldn't mind a SMN that was this way in any other franchise (teso, wow, whatever). Here, it's Final Fantasy. Name comes with a legacy and expectations. You expect a final fantasy summoner not just the name summoner that could mean various gameplay, no a lot of people want a FF summoner : summon temporarily a big, cool looking entity, that does a big flashy move with big damage, then goes away.

Doesn't go well with MMO styles at first thought (imagine pushing one button every 20 seconds only), yet they managed to make something that looks like it AND is adapted to MMO, in the shape of Demis (they dilute the big flash on 20 sec but you feel powerful when they are here and that's the point, how it feels). I would even have them launch their nuke only once but twice the power (something like 1000 smn eq. potency)

What I do understand also, is that there is quite a number of people as well that want a pet class and that's perfectly fine. All I say is they sacrificed SMN on that alter, and it's time they stopped. That's why I'm advocating for, next expansion, a new class that would be a pet class, and make SMN free of that "specification" burden & go full demis. If some people say "but then it's just a flashy BLM" ? Yeah that's what a FF SMN is, that's what a lot of people expect and want.