So I can't find a thread specifically about the summoner and turn 5 (if there is one please show me!) so I thought I'd post my own.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to bump up my DPS to the next level with this class. I'm struggling to fully understand it even though I've been playing this class since I picked up this game. I'm realizing now that I've started trying T5 that I've no clue what a properly played SMN should be doing.

Anyway, this is more about what I should be doing in T5 specifically. I'm being told I'm parsing below what SMN should there, and it infuriates me because I'm not sure what to do to bump it up.

In T5 I've been opening with the RS > dots > contagion > bane etc on the scourges. Should I continue with the ruin spam on them after this or should I be moving onto attacking twin at this point? And how do I keep my dps on Twintania up at all times during conflags? I find myself trying to sit on aether stacks during conflag phase trying to make sure I have bane/fester up for fast conflags, but I feel like that hurts my dps on Twin by a lot.

I'm looking for any advice on keeping good dps up on all phases if possible. I'm pretty distraught about this, I thought I knew what I was doing but now I know I haven't a clue. So I'm wiping what I know and trying to re-learn from the ground-up now.