Quote Originally Posted by SargeTheSeagull View Post
“Lots of people play it so it’s fine” It’s basically a new job, of course people are playing it. Lots of people played red mage and samurai when 4.0 dropped. Lots of people played DRK, Astro and MCH when HW came out. Doesn’t mean it’s good. Doesn’t mean it’s well designed. It means people want to try it out. I mean people played a bunch of monk in 5.0 thanks to GL4. We all know how that turned out. Give it six months and nobody will touch summoner in anything harder than a dungeon.
Except you SEVERELY underestimate the casual joe. He doesn't care about complexity, he just wants to finish his raids and trials and cruise through content in easy mode while looking at nice animations and getting the summoner feel aesthetically. These players are MANY, and will most likely stick with the job. You bring up monk, but for most players, pre 5.4 monk was very hard for a LOT of players, so naturally they would bow out after a while, summoner is NOT of that ilk.