Quote Originally Posted by Aikaal View Post
it's always a matter of perspective. Me getting owned because I can't delay CDs or Bahamut without significant damage loss is a big turn off for me.

Me picking RDM and just doing better damage on fights I had not played on the job also feels bad. As much as people hate the whole raise support. I sure doubled raise both dead healers... twice to get the door boss down this week. It'd have been a while with a SMN. With a RDM, it was a clear. SMN just feel it lost the caster identity with 7 casts per 2 minutes. It's just not enjoyable, I'm having a ton of fun on BLM and RDM because I get to play around my mobility.

Honestly, it's on the right path, you are right, the rotation is too rigid. They do need to bring back more casts and just make Ifrit better DPS than Titan. Titan GCDs does more Potency with a shorter, instant-cast GCD. Like; "What were they thinking?" moment.
to be honest, im not really sure why there is a desire for one arcanum summon to do more damage than the other. I agree when it is a mechanical consideration, i.e Ifrit needs to do more because its casted. But when its lore related, it kind of... irks me.

In terms of titan doing more, I wonder if it was because historically titan has always been the one not used, perhaps the devs thought that they needed a carrot to get people to use it. I certainly remember YP making a big point pre-0endwalker that we ould need to use all summons to get maimum dps.

Damage aside, Titan is my favourite of the three mechanically because it is actually different and provides variation from spamming the same button, allthough i would have to concede that its a small minute variation. Either way, mechanically the job needs some adjustments. I hope it happens in 6.1.