Quote Originally Posted by RadicalPesto View Post
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.
With the new ranged buffs, ranged won't be pushed out, but they are still really bad. The double BLM comp theorycrafted needed 2 BLMs performing at 95%+ to get a very minor increase, iirc from the original thread it was 0.5% over taking a top performing ranged, and wasn't a gain if you could get another LB2 out of a normal comp (due to reduced lb generation from double class). The new ranged buff and no nerf to BLM means that that 0.5% will likely not happen anymore. Ranged still need a buff though imo.