Summoner is doing too much in 5.10

[RadicalPesto]

Finding it laughable, that we've arrived at another round of blatant power balance issues and I see a lot of median tier players chirping in about *perceived* job difficulty and trying to leverage that as a justification for the current state of balance. Absolutely moronic.

Summoner is clearly overperforming right now and implying it is not is mindless. Not only does it currently outperform its closest competitor, Black Mage, in both rDPS and utility in all percentiles but the absolute highest, it really has pushed the third wheel in the Caster role close to redundancy (reference). I would go as far as to say that Red Mage, as a result, is the worst job in the game. Not because it does the lowest rDPS, the ranged do, but because of the fact that its direct competitors far outclass the job by miles.

Caster Balance is a mess.

New Summoner seems overpowered enough to potentially drive the entire physical ranged role out in the same way that people feared 2x BLM would do by means of a SMN/BLM comp, except while bringing a Raise and not having the penalty for duplicate jobs that 2x BLM had. It's also patently absurd that people are arguing that SMN deserves to be this powerful "because its difficult" when the class was made substantially easier as part of this round of buffs.

Buffing other jobs to compensate for Summoner's currently broken damage would require to buff almost every DPS job in the game (you can't simply buff BLM, since doing so would partly nullify the buffs RDM got to make it competitive with BLM, and buffing RDM would require further buffing of the entire ranged physical role to make them competitive with casters, and for all we know this might also require giving small buffs to melee classes as well). The only solution is to revert some of the potency increases SMN got whether people like it or not, because turning this into a casters arms race will just end the same way that the ranged physical DPS arms race ended in Heavensward, which was making that particular role overpowered compared to other types of DPS.

Some people will always cry in the forums when nerfs happen to their favorite class, and even openly support their favorite class ruining the entire game's balance as some sort of reparation for being bad for one patch, as can be seen in this thread. These people should simply not be listened to since they don't have the best interests of the entire playerbase in mind, only their own.