Quote Originally Posted by Ramura_Sono View Post
While the degree to which he feels it needs to be nerfed is ludicrous, he's not wrong that it should see a reduction in damage. A reduction of 2-3% would put it in line with the other casters. It would give BLM the same lead over casters that SAM has over melee and SMN wouldn't need to lose any of it's utility.
No that's not true.

As was demonstrated it is middle of the pack or sometimes even lower in other content types like dungeons and alliance raids.
You are attempting to justify making it middle of the pack or lower in Savage content... which in turn will make it bottom of the pile in all other content, even lower than Red Mage.
Who would want to play a job that is middle of the pack in Savage and bottom of the pile in all other content. That is not "balance' its the opposite.

There is no justification for that.

Worse some people here seem to think Summoner and Red Mage are equal in their support abilities when that is provably false.

Red Mage Heals are about 10,000 healing and dual casted for 20,000... Summoner Heals are a whopping 800.
Summoner has ONE Ressurection that can be quickcasted... after that its 8 second casting time.
Red Mage has no such limitations, it's Verraise is dual casted. So no matter how many raises you do with RDM it never has a casting time, and can be combined with attacks for instant raises at any time (Jolt + Verraise for example).

They have overestimated SMN capabilities... and far underestimated RDM capabilities.

If SMN DPS drops below or equal to RDM DPS what do you think is going to happen? Yeah it makes the Summoner job pointless.