Does Summoner get better?

[Myon88]

The other thing that doesn't sit right with me is the disconnect between how flashy your spells are and their actual function. Your spammable gcds look like other jobs' 1 minute cooldowns, your egis which appear every 20 seconds are a spectacle worthy of a 3 minute cooldown, yet you're doing mediocre damage the entire time. It loses the impact when you cycle back to it for the 10th time and the boss still isn't dead.

It's like if every dragoon gcd was a nastrond, or reaper was in enshroud 100% of the time. No matter how amazing a skill looks, it becomes boring if you're given too much of it and it feels like you didn't earn it. When every gcd is amazing, no gcd is amazing, proper pacing is very important.

This goes for the casting tempo too. When so much of it is instacast skills, you lose the feeling of what's actually special about instant cast spells, it just becomes the new normal. You lose the satisfaction of having a well rounded variety of skills and choosing the right spell for the right moment. Like red mage's dualcast, you're given way more mobility than you actually need, and it gives people ammo to justify slapping you with the phys ranged label, it is a trap.

All I'm saying is that the ruin 3 spam and 'downtime' in the old summoner rotation served a purpose. You need the lows in order to better appreciate the highs, when you're constantly popping off it wraps around back to being boring again.