Summoner rework is a huge dissapointment

[zcrash970]

Snip

You forgot the new metric though. Yoshi said that "busy" jobs should be stronger and be buff accordingly. Current smn is the literal opposite of being busy sadly.

But you are right, smn, at it's current dps, needs better utility

[MrJPtheAssassin]

You forgot the new metric though. Yoshi said that "busy" jobs should be stronger and be buff accordingly. Current smn is the literal opposite of being busy sadly.

But you are right, smn, at it's current dps, needs better utility

Unfortunately, you are right...Current smn isn't busy enough for it to be where it used to be but it's not even a good caster. Has worst utility than rdm and does the same amount if not a little less dam as an rdm. It sucks! I personally have given up all hope Yoshi and the devs will listern and just keep smn as the super-easy job for casuals. I still think the caster role as a whole has the worst balancing this expac because of the state of smn. There isn't a mid-ground caster between dam and utility. BLM is you big dam caster and rdm is you utility caster...so where does that leave smn? *sigh* I be honest I hate EW because of this, this has been the least fun tier for me bc of the smn's rework and the fact I cant play rpr. Guess I will be looking for a new group next tier...Im not looking forward to that.

[zcrash970]

Unfortunately, you are right...Current smn isn't busy enough for it to be where it used to be but it's not even a good caster. Has worst utility than rdm and does the same amount if not a little less dam as an rdm. It sucks! I personally have given up all hope Yoshi and the devs will listern and just keep smn as the super-easy job for casuals. I still think the caster role as a whole has the worst balancing this expac because of the state of smn. There isn't a mid-ground caster between dam and utility. BLM is you big dam caster and rdm is you utility caster...so where does that leave smn? *sigh* I be honest I hate EW because of this, this has been the least fun tier for me bc of the smn's rework and the fact I cant play rpr. Guess I will be looking for a new group next tier...Im not looking forward to that.

Honestly I gave up. At this point I'm not currently subbed and just waiting for the 2 weeks to passed where I can no longer post here.

If you care solely for higher level gameplay, the draw isn't here especially if you main quite a few of the jobs. As for yoshi and the devs, I don't have much faith in them. It's almost like they didn't play test anything. Whm, smn, dark, mch, and nin are awful while some jobs got too much love like war and ast. Let's not forget the idiocy of dk mnk as well.

And I think what really gets under my skin is they admitted that smn was reaching a breaking point and would need a rework in 6.0. That would suggest that they knew they were going to rework in 5.0 or even late stormblood. You're going to tell me that this is literally the best they came up with in that timeframe? A job that relies on it's aesthetics to get a player base. A job that can literally be played with one button with little lost. A job at release had it's lvl70 skill stronger than it's lvl 80. A lvl90 skill that is solely animations? A core mechanic unlocked at lvl 86. A job that fixed none of the issues that it had to begin with? A job where it is a caster in name only

It's beyond obvious that even with the rework, they have no idea what they are doing with the job.