I love SMN

[Burningskull]

I tried SMN in a lvl 80 Alliance Raid for the first time since expansion launch and I had a litteral blast. It was so intuitive and thanks to the fact most spells are instant it give a lot of oGCD weaving with AetherFlow and Fester... Well... once a minute I guess.

Ruin 4 is kinda weird as I mostly ended up using at the end of my Ifrit, Titan, Garuda phase.

Rekindle is also a weird move considering I'm a controller player and you need to target a party member for.

But other than that I absolutely loved it and was very close to switch mains for it lol.

[Navnav]

Yeah SMN is perfect right now. I will level it after I get my WAR to max then will level SMN, then MNK. Those three classes will be my go to this xpac, with SGE as healer, since i think it's dope.

[Awarewolf]

Yeah it gets better as it levels. So so so fun. My new main and we are having a blast.

[Teno]

I was bitter at first but I warmed up to it, the job fantasy is finally amazing, summoning primals is great in conjunction with demi-primals. My main gripe at the moment is that you're basically spamming 1 during Bahamut/Phoenix phase.

[Daemonfaust]

Its rare seeing forum posts about people liking anything on these forums lol.

I really like SMN as well. I just think they should move the level 86 Elemental Mastery trait to a much lower level like 50.

[Raikai]

I do too love the new SMN.

But hey, I think it's the job's fate to have the playerbase divided on it, no matter how it is designed.

My only gripe right now with the job is the base carbuncle that does nothing. I wish it was a cosmetic spell so it would be optional, I feel their animation of popping in and out after every other egi/demi is a bit distracting, let alone the fact that the party buff and your personal shield are attached to its presence... I miss a LOT of opportunities to use that shield because something happens I'm either in demi phase or right on that moment where the egi comes to perform their move.

[RobynDaBank]

Bold take to have these days (apparently)!

[Yubie]

I think new summoner is fine, fun even and I say this as someone who pmuch only played summoner prior to endwalker's rework.

However I will die on the hill that they need to do something with carbuncle. Having it just stand there being cosmetic is stupid as hell. I dont care if it auto attacks or heals like scholar or what but it needs SOMETHING.

[SieyaM]

While it does feel strange to have Carbuncle just kind of there doing nothing, the moment you give him an auto attack or anything it means that the abilities we use for him may not be as responsive as they are now. I would say add another oGCD ability to Carbuncle, maybe an attack ability or something, but I feel like Carbuncle is almost never available anyway since he is removed every time you summon which if you are really rolling on your abilities can be very often.

[Reimmi]

I think new summoner is fine, fun even and I say this as someone who pmuch only played summoner prior to endwalker's rework.

However I will die on the hill that they need to do something with carbuncle. Having it just stand there being cosmetic is stupid as hell. I dont care if it auto attacks or heals like scholar or what but it needs SOMETHING.

I was really sad to hear carbuncle doesn't even auto attack anymore, fairy still does auto healing so not sure why they removed it