SMN need less casting time for dots

[lordparanoia]

i would like to try a spell speed based gear, i would like to know how it changes my dps.
honestly, spell speed for smn is not a real problem. you can't have instant dots, it would be no sense.
and remember that you already have instant cast like bio, miasma2,ruin2

[Vallhallix]

Idunno what you're talking about. Im usually the first one to damage against Titan in titan ex. I'd already have raging strike'd dots up contagion & swiftcast shadowflare and rouse on Garuda for good measure before he does his first landslide. By the time of his first WoL im already festering and getting criticals like a mofo. You need to run with better SMN's

You also forget SMN doesn't need a cast time reduction for the simple fact in most fights a SMN's damage never has to end. For all the melee classes and range except for BRD eventually they all have to stop dpsing. A SMN doesn't. My dots, and often shadow flare, + garuda on rouse & spure is going on most of the fight against titan. Ive had bosses actually die off screen because of em. In lost city the boss died while we were going through the doors because of dots + garuda.

[givemeraptors]

If you want to see the worst job in the game against trash, try playing MNK. The basis of the class, ST DPS with significant ramp-up and poor AoE (outside of once ever 3 minutes), is as anti-dungeon as it gets.

Urgghhh, I'm leveling monk right now and it is horrible. Tanks who keep enemies' back to the wall, or spin them around for no reason. Then it takes so long to get all those greased lightning stacks and they inevitably fall off between pulls ;_;

On a boss I'm all WA-POW!!! but on trash it's all plink-plink and running around like a headless chicken. Don't even get me started on trying to do solo content. It's the worst.

[Apl_Juice]

Sure, just give Monks GL3 and DRGs Disembowel/HT on first hit

[RaphaelDDL]

SMN is nice, try play MNK

[Altimis]

BLM the king of trashes?

Ohhhh I liked it

[Syrellaris]

Summoners are single target casters. They kill fast that way combined with your egi you kill a single target faster then a BLM will. We shine on bosses if you ask me but are lower on packs of mobs, thats where BLM shines.

My rotation is by far prolly not the best around but it works haha. I use Raging Strikes(archer), then Bio II, Miasma, Bio, Garuda's skill(forget the name) then Bane if there's multiple mobs or else I cast Fester. If there is multiple mobs, i'll throw a shadow flare in the beginning or after Bane. After that I cast Ruin till I can Fester, repeat. works like a charm.