Quote Originally Posted by anna-steele View Post
i like the newer SMN depite the old rotation being fun also, but issue with SMN is they want to be a support role now it seems, ok fine, but the supporting we do now is weird, feel much lesser than bard or dancer. so my question to the dev is, what is summoner?
It doesn't really read as a Support job. Seeing its animations especially as another player you see it as a DPS even if a lot of its moves have support options, RDM reads far better as the support caster because of the big shield vercure and mass res also the damage buff is more noticeable. Personally I don't think its a good way to go for SMN to become a support, RDM will always be superior to it. Genuinely think this version of SMN is compatible with a dot system, maybe not like damage dots but weakness dots like RPR's weakness dot but make SMN have mutiple that relate to buffing the summon's damage and convert some of the spells during summon phase as commands/abilities. But yeah I don't think the support option works, I think something akin to a Demonology Warlock from wow would work better for new SMN.