Summoner Needs to be buffed

[ForteNightshade]

I have bad news for you they will never buff SMN enough to surpass RDM, rdm rotation is harder so higher dps is warranted.

If we're going to use this logic then Reaper should be the weakest melee. Not only does it boast the best utility among melee in Arcane Crest, it's incredibly easy to pick up and play even at a fairly decent level. Additionally, it has no odd optimization quirks like Samurai or suffer from animation lock like Dragoon.

And yet it's not only the best Melee but the best overall DPS job in the entire game. So the difficult logic simply doesn't work.

If physical ranged gets lower DPS because of mobility then so too should summoner.

Except the Range aren't competing against anyone else but themselves. You'll always take one of them whereas Summoner's DPS is so low, it's essentially worthless. There's simply zero reason for any group to even consider Summoner come Savage. Red Mage simply beats it at every category while Black Mage is better for speeds. Summoner has no niche or even reason to exist at its current level.