Summoner: Energy Siphon should replace Energy Drain via a trait in 6.0

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Energy Drain and Energy Siphon, as well as Fester and Painflare, should be used in combo so we actually have oGCDs to press and make use of the many instacasts we have.

Do you mean that these actions should literally combo into each other? If so, that could be interesting and it would definitely justify the existence of two separate Energy Drain/Siphon actions. I'm not sure how that will vibe with the existing Aetherflow system (which already seems thematically superfluous, anyway), but it's a start.

If not, it sounds like you're suggesting that things should remain as-is so that we have more oGCDs to press, which is not the case. We just have more buttons to do the same number of oGCDs. If Energy Drain/Siphon were combined, the extra hotbar slot could be used for a new oGCD: another Summoner-themed damage skill with multiple charges, an action that boosts the next Gem Summon spell or slightly reduces its cast time (great for Ifrit's hardcasts and Garuda's Astral Flow), etc. The sky's the limit.

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Do you mean that these actions should literally combo into each other? If so, that could be interesting and it would definitely justify the existence of two separate Energy Drain/Siphon actions. I'm not sure how that will vibe with the existing Aetherflow system (which already seems thematically superfluous, anyway), but it's a start.

If not, it sounds like you're suggesting that things should remain as-is so that we have more oGCDs to press, which is not the case. We just have more buttons to do the same number of oGCDs. If Energy Drain/Siphon were combined, the extra hotbar slot could be used for a new oGCD: another Summoner-themed damage skill with multiple charges, an action that boosts the next Gem Summon spell or slightly reduces its cast time (great for Ifrit's hardcasts and Garuda's Astral Flow), etc. The sky's the limit.

Yeah, I mean they should combo into each other like Phoenix used to with FoF and BoP. Having a button for ST and an AoE variant is quite dumb, especially if it's on a system as "useless" as Aetherflow.
You would gain aetherflow stacks by using Energy Drain+Energy Siphon and you would spend stacks by using Fester+Painflare. This way, we still get 6 oGCDs per minute like current SMN and we also fix the issue of having situational buttons, as all of them would be used, regardless of ST and AoE.