Look what you all did, you made kevee mad.

I tried to read a lot of the arguments here but it just seems like a lot of back and forth on whether SMN was "destroyed" or, whether it "needed a nerf" or whatever.

I think most of you glossed over Kevee's main points, which are also the points I've been trying to convey.

Mathematically, this is a single target (and cleave) dps loss of around 7.5%, maybe more depending on contagion use and whether you multidot with it or not. It is also a mana efficiency loss, but not a mana usage gain. What I mean by that is, over the course of X seconds, you will use less MP, but if you had to deal Y damage, you would spend more of it now than before.

So this kinda sucks. But summoners are still usable.

The boots change is similar in effect, albeit on an even smaller scale. Anyone who thinks moving some stats around will destroy their dps is really, really falling into the MMO trap, where they make you think your incremental upgrades are extremely important. They aren't.

But it is the rationale behind the nerfs that is problematic.

Taking away cross class skills just makes it, well, boring, and completely against the only thing that makes this game unique, which is the customizability of your skillset through cross classing. This, sucks.

Making valor (oops, I mean myth) point gear better than drops is also a BAD thing, as it makes it a huge grind, rather than an accomplishment, to obtain your "BiS" gear. This is especially dumb because you can literally get EVERY piece of gear with myth (okay not your second ring, boohoo). This is...really...odd endgame progression, to say the least.

So obviously since I've never created any MMOs, I can't speak to what they're thinking. But as a player of many, I have to say, these changes suck, and aren't the right way to go about it.

That is what is worrying.

Also those that think the "interrupt on any direct damage" isn't going to completely destroy casters are very, very mistaken. Also, before you say "but pvp only skills", take a look at them, which of them gives you surecast?

Also, the "nerf" to sustain is...what? Like, why? How? What? When? Who?

I don't even know what question to ask about that change. What...necessitated it? What is the point of the "change"? Was it thematic? I really, really don't understand that one, at all.