You all aren't helping anything. You think my post is garbage because you want to stay optimistic about playing SMN as your main. Like Keevee said, nothing to test, we just lost an important DOT and our
main debuff got worse. Its a Nerf, period. And I didn't mean to say SMN was a useless class, just not worth using over BLM now in endgame (ie. Coil) IMHO. Where is the SMN usefullness check? BLM is already best DPS in Turn 4 where you would think SMN's great AOE would prosper. BLM is also neck and neck in T2 with SMN as well. And T5 SMN might be overall better DPS, but BLM is still more useful
for the conflag burst DPS check which is the most difficult part of T5. SMN prob still best for T1 cause there is 2 snakes to DOT, wow. My intentions were not to be overdramatic about SMN nerf, just saying that BLM is a more viable endgame caster class, maybe even before patch, but definitely after. I'll still use my SMN for duty finder dungeons and thats about it.