New SMN is a mind-numbingly boring one-button job

[aveyond-dreams]

Dots aren't engaging gameplay, they're just busywork. So much for the "complexity!" some wanted. If I wanted to tack on a dot every now and then I'd play a healer. Wanderer's Minuet and Gauss Barrel went completely against the gameplay you experience for the previous 50 levels of those classes and turned them into unfun immobile turrets. Black Mage at least had good flow to it, but MCH had *rng combos* and BRD had nothing else going for it besides dots. Of course I got fed up with those abilities and dropped the classes altogether because once again just like old SMN, I decided I didn't want to be pushed in that direction and ended up not levelling those jobs to max even. At least for SMN I somehow managed to suffer through till the end of the MSQ and got to summon Phoenix a few times.

Proceed to later expansions when those issues were fixed, I ended up finishing them off each time and have taken MCH into quite a lot of content as rdps when farming specific items for ranged along with Dancer. And now new SMN is my main, a lot of people's new mains, and at this point you either accept it as is or wait till 7.0. Assuming they decide to recognize the requests made from the "complexity!" crowd, because it seems most of their wants go against the wants of the general playerbase. No wonder they sided with the "we just want to be Summoners" crowd as opposed to the complex poison mage fans.

I want jobs that are fun and don't break my hands to play competently. SMN fulfills that.