Let's look at E3S (Leviathan), the fight almost everyone thinks is annoying because of the mechanics. SMN is still lower than BLM, SAM, and MNK (before Anatman nerf). BLM has not been nerfed at all to put that in perspective.



So overall, SMN got a big buff which everyone believes is true. However, E1S is where the data can get skewed a lot because of the ridiculous cleaving potential SMN has over any other DPS job (besides WHM like Nemekh stated).