6.0 summoner ideas

[reivaxe]

Taking a 99th Summoner on Ramuh, a single target nigh full uptime fight (So it doesn't benefit one ranged or caster over another), using the current 5.3 summoner who saw a nerf to Tri Disaster's upfront potency

The Logs in question are from a Smn in late March. At the time the log had a 98% which dropped down to a 91% currently with a 18,940.5 RDPS and 19,009.9 ADPS. This, again, is with him deciding to only cast R3 once and instead spam R2, casting it 84 times in the Ramuh fight.

Smn doesn't have dashes but it is factually the most mobile of the casters, with basically nothing in it's kit forcing it to stand still. IDK of any other job that can still out put such high DPS with such lil drop off by completely ignoring what would normally be their most used skill.
To say they're punished for movement outside of certain windows is to tie this all back into the "their janky pet system is a headache for the devs" statement cause that's what it all comes down to.

They don't "work" like either of the other casters and if their DPS was in line with their freedom of movement (Brd/ Mch level) and their level of utility (only thing Rdm has over them is insta-casting Rez 2 more times before they're oom. Devotion is just a better, more flexible dps buff and their HoT isn't something they can control but does passively heal without stopping their rotation) then no one would put up with the headache of their pet system.

I personally believe "Dot Mage" is something that can work perfectly fine in this game if they could separate it from all the other janky non-sense that is Smn.
Perhaps in 6.0 they make a dot mage and rework Smn to not have Dots, focusing on a new FBT/ BHT like phase that requires hard casting and would replace the egis. IIRC this job has been said to be one of the next to see a massive rework so anything goes imo.