Summoner got destroyed this patch

[pandabearcat]

I'm not the number cruncher I used to be, so could you explain how the loss of Thunder is only 7.5%? I'm genuinely curious.

Well I can't really dig up my thread now, but basically looked at all the raw potency numbers of all summoner attacks (ignoring spell haste).

Essentially, what it boils down to is summonerss do roughly 22k potency over 180 seconds (cooldown of RS).

You spend 8-9 of those GCD's on thunder, which counts for something like 2300-2400 potency.

You instead use those GCDs to Ruin, which is ~740 potency.

So you lose 1660 potency over 180 seconds, which is ~9.2 pps which is roughly 7.5% total dps loss.

The reason it seems smaller is your pet is there for ~25-33% of your damage.

This includes pet approximations.

It is ~10% of personal dps loss, if you want to ignore pets entirely.

For cleaving...it is a slightly higher dps loss, but we can't keep thunder up on more than maybe 2 targets anyway, too much mp.