Revert summoner to 5.55 while re-reworking it please?

[Renathras]

Summoner is currently fundamentally broken which is especially impressive given how little there is there.

No, it's not. Saying "thing is broken" is not an argument. HOW is it broken? What SPECIFICALLY is broken? And note these have to be things that DON'T WORK, not preferences that you don't enjoy. "It's too simple" is not broken, that's just it not matching your preferences. WAR is simple, but not broken. BRD is simple, but not broken. MCH is simple and kind of broken because it has nothing to make up for its lack of utility and its lack of damage doesn't do so sufficiently...but even it's not REALLY broken, the community just doesn't value what it has as worth taking one over a DNC or BRD. Likewise, SMN isn't broken, either.

1) What is FFXIV as we know it but an admission of a horrible mistake?

No, that's ARR. FFXIV as a whole is not an admission of constant mistakes.

2) Caster potencies remained largely unchanged if that's what you're referring to? Else you're saying that the issue is not the issue.

Old SMN did high DPS, usually top 5, often top 3 if played well, and could out DPS a lot of BLM and some SAM players in the hands of a skilled master. Current SMN is not tuned to that, so if we got old SMN's rotation but balanced to do new SMN's damage (that is, if SMN's overall damage was unchanged), you'd be playing the hardest Job in the game but doing the functional damage of a MCH.

3) see 2)

See above.

4) This doesn't seem to be a point with any substance.

No, but that wasn't a rebuttal with any substance. The point has substance, you just have no counter to it.

5) Hopefully they'd have made something that has gameplay, specifically gameplay in keeping with the summoner we've had for the last decade so the change wouldn't be as bad.

And if they haven't?

6) If they'd done it properly then it wouldn't be necessary.

But that's not the world we live in, now is it?

New summoner does scarcely better than mch damage, old summoner was an actual caster and did appropriate damage for such a role, ie upper half of the dps.

Exactly. So pasting old SMN into new SMN's spot today would make it a worthless Job no one would use unless they ALSO reverted the damage and balanced its damage to be boosted. Keep in mind it has no 81-90 level abilities for OLD SMN, meaning it wouldn't be getting the potency boosts and higher burst finishers that everyone else has. Thus it would be doing less damage than RDM while being harder to play than BLM.

What part of SMN's direction is fine? Care to specify? All I see is a set in stone rotation of the ruin spam everyone apparently hated, with different colours every 15s. Please elucidate specifically what part of newSMN is a good direction to take the job, without diverging into fanciful imaginations about where it could go. I am sincerely curious about what an answer would be.

Wait, what? If you're spamming Ruin, you're doing it wrong. You should only even cast Ruin MAYBE twice per minute, which is less than old SMN did. The variations while under Primal effects are not Ruin, don't cast like Ruin, and don't work like Ruin. Garuda's are instant casts with a reduced GCD. Titan's are instant cast with an oGCD to weave between them, and Ifrit's is a GCD cast longer than the GCD itself. NOT ONE OF THESE is like Ruin. And if you're going to say "That's just Ruin with a different flavor", then Miasma, Bio, and Egi Assault were "just Ruin with a different flavor", too.

There are arguments to be made, but SMN is "fine" right now. It's not perfect (but no Job is) and it's not interesting to people that like doing things like managing a buffet of DoT timers and CD buttons. But that isn't what makes a Job "fine". It's "fine" because all the pieces work together (unlike old SMN), the combat flow is understandable and works, the things that are supposed to buff or alter or interact with other things do so as they're supposed to do, and the Job has a groundwork laid for future additions so it isn't designed into a corner.

I get you don't like it. But you not liking a thing is not what defines whether or not it is fine.

Or people like playing it. That it’s not complicated enough for likely a huge minority of players on the complaining (err dps) forums is irrelevant.

We can also see this with things like the Lucky Bancho numbers and other surveys showing that the most played classes in each role are generally the easiest - WAR, WHM, and SMN. RDM is also frequently played (and also easy), and all three of the Ranged physical are similar to each other (because they're all relatively easy), and RPR, followed by SAM, are the most played Melee, which area also - you guessed it - the easiest of them.

While the forums are often filled with VERY vocal masochistic complexity purists, the game as a whole isn't. And we have other Jobs for the people that like complex, clunk, and convolution anyway.

[tearagion]

Wait, what? If you're spamming Ruin, you're doing it wrong. You should only even cast Ruin MAYBE twice per minute, which is less than old SMN did. The variations while under Primal effects are not Ruin, don't cast like Ruin, and don't work like Ruin. Garuda's are instant casts with a reduced GCD. Titan's are instant cast with an oGCD to weave between them, and Ifrit's is a GCD cast longer than the GCD itself. NOT ONE OF THESE is like Ruin. And if you're going to say "That's just Ruin with a different flavor", then Miasma, Bio, and Egi Assault were "just Ruin with a different flavor", too.

Oh word man, this GCD that is just flat damage with no preamble, setup, or consequence is totally not at all like this other GCD that is just flat damage with no preamble, setup, or consequence. Instant cast totally makes them more interesting. .3 seconds added to 2 of them per minute is totally different.

Miasma, Bio, and Egi-Assault had plenty to separate them mechanically from spamming one button for 45 seconds, before swapping over to another TOTALLY UNIQUE AND FUN NOT-RUIN GCD for the next 15s.

It's "fine" because all the pieces work together

Are you sure? How does Aetherflow work with anything now? How does Ruin 4 work with anything? How does Carbuncle really work with anything? How do Arcanum summons work with the Demi summons? Is Demis shitting out the gems being the only relation really fine?

[aveyond-dreams]

Can we please stop bringing up Miasma and Bio until Necromancer becomes a thing. Of all the spells and mechanics those are the absolute least likely to ever return.

[VentVanitas]

Can we please stop bringing up Miasma and Bio until Necromancer becomes a thing. Of all the spells and mechanics those are the absolute least likely to ever return.

Or they could just bring them back to SCH. Because creating an entirely new job just to satisfy the people who liked old SMN seems asinine when Scholar is literally right there as the other summon job.

[aveyond-dreams]

Or they could just bring them back to SCH. Because creating an entirely new job just to satisfy the people who liked old SMN seems asinine when Scholar is literally right there as the other summon job.

On this I fully agree. Scholar leaning away from the diseases aspect of its job identity and instead opting to pursue the "Orator" fantasy was one of the worst mistakes to ever happen to the job. "Art of War" please. Give me back Miasma II on that job, and the other dots too.

[Baxcel]

Can we please stop bringing up Miasma and Bio until Necromancer becomes a thing. Of all the spells and mechanics those are the absolute least likely to ever return.

I feel like pointing out that YoshiP said 2 jobs would for sure never be open to the WoL as they are to "evil" in his opinion.
Those jobs being Thief and Necromancer.

[aveyond-dreams]

I feel like pointing out that YoshiP said 2 jobs would for sure never be open to the WoL as they are to "evil" in his opinion.
Those jobs being Thief and Necromancer.

Ok so explain Reaper.

[Baxcel]

Ok so explain Reaper.

Reapers ain't evil tho, they are a form of combat for a magically lacking people to fight against magic by forming a contract with a voidsent. A voidsent isn't exactly evil they're just starving and willing to do anything for Aether.

Now Thiefs I don't agree with him about being evil and Rouge should of upgraded into it with Ninja having its own job.

But you can't tell me that Nerco isn't evil, messing with the bodies of the dead is very evil. Plus If they ever did decide to add Necro they'd have to never give a skeleton summon or make multiple skins for it as China bans any game with skeletons being featured. (They usually get reskinned to Zombies)

[aveyond-dreams]

Ok so give Necromancer the ability to summon zombies in China and let other players have a cool dark themed caster. I don't care for arguments based on good or evil. People don't always want to play a "good" character.

[Shurrikhan]

I feel like pointing out that YoshiP said 2 jobs would for sure never be open to the WoL as they are to "evil" in his opinion.
Those jobs being Thief and Necromancer.

Ok so explain Reaper.

Soul-stealing is fine. It's not (typically) exchangeable for monetary value.

And as long as they've been disfigured enough from the collapse of their shard, it's not really bringing people back from (un)death when you summon voidsent.