Quote Originally Posted by rewd View Post
His entire video is built on false premises. It makes sense, though, his job is to build up pre-expansion hype. No one is going to give real criticism to anything - new jobs in particular - at this time. Honest and relevant feedback will only come later.

The biggest criticism about SMN is not the lack of buttons, it's the lack of mechanics. It's about how old SMN got several things removed without a replacement and how the few things that survived were nerfed to irrelevance (Aetherflow and Ruin IV). He conveniently doesn't mention any of this and bases his video on a random "let's see who pushes more buttons in a minute".

Once you remember he is an influencer first and then a SMN player, it just makes sense.
What false premises? Current summoner is incredibly clunky. There’s a lot of buttons that’s you barely use. Most of the mechanics don’t even interact with one another. It’s not even that complex.

The job is based around having to hard cast to the dots as little as possible.

I believe that the changes that have been made are something you need to experience first hand before you make a judgement call like that.

Even just seeing the gameplay, the three primal phases are all distinct. Even if the rotation within those phases are simple, the phases are short enough where you’re moving to the next one.

There’s also the fact that while we lost bio and miasma and bane, we gained summon Garuda, ifrit, and titan as actual spells. They do damage and you’ll be summoning them once a minute.

How often are you actually summoning ifrit, Garuda and titan right now?