Quote Originally Posted by Akiza View Post
Absent any new gear sets specific to the Summoner increasing dps on pet is quick fix. The main problem is that the Summoner shares gear with the Black Mage which is mostly loaded with spell speed which lowers our dps. Black Mage has itemization options with tomes gear because the can fill in with tomes gear until they can upgrade to coils while the Summoner doesn't have fill in options like in 2.0
No Spell Speed does not lower your DPS on SMN, it just does not provide quite the DPS increase to SMN as it does to BLM. However what does actually lower DPS is having to use Energy Drain more and Ruin II less, to avoid flooring your MP. Increasing Pet damage does nothing for the MP issue.