Summoner / Scholar, In Math and Practice

[Exolithus]

You just use Garudas first attack and the dot extendtions, the aoe is just usefull if you use it on 4 or more mobs because of the long casttime and the knockback...is useless

If you let Garuda on Sic she will constantly cast the aoe on a single target wich is a huge dmg loss
You dont need macros or keybinding for garuda, just one to set her to Obey once and another one to use Contagion and thats it, if you have more than 4 mobs in a spot just click garudas aoe of if you totally must use keybinding just give it one, ignore the knockback

@Akirakogami:
Aero is 200 potency, fester is 300 (if all dots are on target). Energy drain (aetherflow) is 150 potency + mana drain. Combining Aero + ED you get a higher potency than fester and you get mana back. All are capped at 1 min (aetherflow grants 3 stacks per minute, 1 stack required to cast).

Again, you use 1 SMN skill against 2 SCH skills and wants to tell us that SCH deals more dmg...you talk about getting mana back but use mana at the same time

Lets compare
RS+BioII+Bio+Miasma+Fester
against
BioII+Bio+Miasma+Aero+ED

or even better

BioII+Bio+Miasma+Fester+Contagion
against
BioII+Bio+Miasma+Aero+ED

just contagion alone makes SMN deal way more dps than a SCH, stop ignoring important skills of a class

[SokoSplat]

@exolithus:
potency was: 13.3~ (non RS) 16 (rs). As this is the best DOT damage skill the benefit applied follows less with the other dots. a total of 9ish potency benefit for 20 seconds with all 3 dots. On the other hand CS is giving you a benefit of 10% over 100% of the time vs RS giving you 20% 1/9th of the time [180s recast, duration 20s]) so the benefit on potency is weighted toward the class with CS and not RS. We ignored to give SMN the benefit of the doubt...

ED returns 50% of damage dealt rather than cost mana: 266 for me x3)
Aero requires mana (106 per cast. for 1 min 3 casts so 318).
In the end, you return 480 after subtracting aero cost. so my premise 'and you get mana back' is correct 100%.

Aero is a dot, it costs you 1 GCD per cast (18s) in your rotation. for giggles lets give the SMN +3 rune IIs (5.3 potency/sec over the 60s window) which will still put us under potency aero/ED combo.