Summoner rework is a huge dissapointment

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To be honest I didn't remember Raise being made an issue at all back then. Even with Bard's quite low personal DPS, it was a sought-after job because it was simply the best support in the game during ARR to SB. In rDPS it was around SMN's level too. SMN did really good DPS and didn't get a party buff until SB, which it compensated for.

It's when the DPS disparity started to expand, and the few times it power-crept BLM was when people started to talk about it. As long as there's not much of a disparity along with making them worth bringing to parties in the first place then I don't think it'll be an issue anymore, because right now they aren't worth bringing much. Like I said, that Raise on SMN isn't saving it from its current position in the meta, and BRD/DNC are a different role and get a bonus for it and even they're having problems so it's not even worth comparing them to each other.