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

[dinnertime]

For me it was the poisons not the DoTs that were the problem. It had always felt like an odd choice for summoner’s main spells to be bio and miasma. There was zero connection to the primals.

Well that's an entirely different topic. I don't like it thematically either. They *could've* kept it, either change it to be more thematic or stay as is, I wouldn't care.

It really did not hurt the job's theme after Stormblood because by then, like I said, the DoT-based abilities were pruned out and we got to see more focus on Summoning via preparing and managing for Demi-Bahamut. Your DoTs? You press one or two buttons to apply, Fester/Bane and forget for 30s. That's it.

People can complain all they want about how DoTs didn't fit thematically, but if people do complain about DoTs in gameplay where it's *apparently* hard to manage, then I would not think very highly with your skill and opinions.

[MrJPtheAssassin]

Well that's an entirely different topic. I don't like it thematically either. They *could've* kept it, either change it to be more thematic or stay as is, I wouldn't care.

It really did not hurt the job's theme after Stormblood because by then, like I said, the DoT-based abilities were pruned out and we got to see more focus on Summoning via preparing and managing for Demi-Bahamut. Your DoTs? You press one or two buttons to apply, Fester/Bane and forget for 30s. That's it.

People can complain all they want about how DoTs didn't fit thematically, but if people do complain about DoTs in gameplay where it's *apparently* hard to manage, then I would not think very highly with your skill and opinions.

Agreed dots was mostly just there in SB and ShB. The only time I had fun "managing dots" was dueing my short time in TEA. Managing my dots on living liquid and Its hand to keep up full-up time on them was pretty fun but outside that one fight dots was very easy.