Summoner feels really, really dumbed down now

[Adonan]

I've said it before, but I think they took the Summoner in the right direction in terms of class fantasy; a DoT mage does not a SUMMONER make. However, once the spectacle wore off, I quickly realized how boring the class was. It definitely needs work on the gameplay front.

Not to mention the Summoner never felt like a proper DoT mage to begin with. It always felt like an amalgamation of two different classes. As far as I remember, the DoTs and summons were always separate systems that never played off of each other. Now that the Summoner focuses more on the summoning perhaps we'll get a real DoT class later, especially since a lot of the others classes are clearly going to lose their DoTs as well. I like DoT mages, so here's to hoping.

[Dahlinea]

I've said it before, but I think they took the Summoner in the right direction in terms of class fantasy; a DoT mage does not a SUMMONER make. However, once the spectacle wore off, I quickly realized how boring the class was. It definitely needs work on the gameplay front.

Not to mention the Summoner never felt like a proper DoT mage to begin with. It always felt like an amalgamation of two different classes. As far as I remember, the DoTs and summons were always separate systems that never played off of each other. Now that the Summoner focuses more on the summoning perhaps we'll get a real DoT class later, especially since a lot of the others classes are clearly going to lose their DoTs as well. I like DoT mages, so here's to hoping.

What tied DoTs to summons is that every time you summoned Phoenix or entered Dreadwyrm Trance, Tri-disaster CD would reset and you could refresh the DoTs without having to actually keep track of them for the whole rotation, only having to reapply them manually every 2 minutes.