SMN - 5.3 Tri-Disaster 50% potency nerf - Misprint, Bad Joke or Just Right?

[CKNovel]

Before 5.3: The better black mage with ranged mobility and utility.
Afer 5.3: The slightly inferior black mage with ranged mobility and utility.

SMN remains the 4th ranged and will remain the most insane job, yet bad to play.

[Roda]

Before 5.3: The better black mage with ranged mobility and utility.
Afer 5.3: The slightly inferior black mage with ranged mobility and utility.

SMN remains the 4th ranged and will remain the most insane job, yet bad to play.

I have no idea why people say smn is bad to play when i find it to feel the best out of all the classes D;
(sure the pets are a little wonky, but i find that kind of almost organic optimization quite interesting)

[Eliadil]

I have no idea why people say smn is bad to play when i find it to feel the best out of all the classes D;

it's a common thing with a lot of jobs in shadowbringers, apart from maybe Dragoon, BLM and maybe all tanks except war. They are definitely good, and you can see what the devs went for, rotations are intuitive and everything. The issue is when you begin to look at uptime stuff, and try to optimize a rotation to the max. Then stuff starts not clicking, cooldowns do not align perfectly (iirc you have to delay your firebird trance for a bit else stuff will drift in the long run), and you lose a decent part of damage in the long run if you're not perfectly used to this.

This is mainly where players say that a job "feels bad" to play, and almost every job has this "it lacks polish" feel when you take the time to really dive deep into it, only exception for dps are BLM and DRG which have really smooth optimization.

As for the main topic, Tri-disaster nerf seems really light when you look at the power level of the job right now, especially when compared to red mage. I expect a bit more nerfs in the future, or even better a rotation rework, to fix the clunkyness AND the difficult balancing.

[BloodRubyXII]

I have no idea why people say smn is bad to play

Because they're bad at playing it despite it receiving numerous QoL changes to make it more accessible.

[Leiron]

Because they're bad at playing it despite it receiving numerous QoL changes to make it more accessible.

Its because it is a rather clunky spec to play, which requires you to hold off on some trances in order to prevent rotational drift. Let alone that the egi's can be buggy and result in phantom attacks resulting in a loss of damage despite the ability being instant. There are real complaints about it.

Arguing that someone has a view because they are bad is just being insulting.