Thread: 2.4 SMN Class Issues

Originally Posted by Havenchild

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The OP did throw some numbers out there that favor BLM in single target. But honestly, unless Square decides to put some encounters in the game similar to T4 more often the utility a SMN offers alone I think is justifiable for a small damage advantage in Black Mage's favor, even if they are a little more durable through manawall/ward. If AOE does become more prevalent in the endgame then I could see the two becoming more equalized.

That said I feel like the biggest advantage a BLM has in single target right now isn't really from SMNs raw damage potential. Having tested both on a dummy myself under similar situations they both do close to the same with the BLM edging out a little more in general. The big problem is the SMNs lack of longevity in combat, which is what this forum post I feel is mostly about. I feel we need to adjust SMNs mana efficiency, not their damage. The way I see it, you fix SMNs mana efficiency, you fix the huge gap we're seeing right now between BLM and SMN in FCOB.

EDIT: This is assuming a BLM and SMN of equal skill/gear...Obviously a Black Mage who doens't even bother to bind AM to a key or has never heard of proc management will probably get blown out of the water by a SMN who at least knows to keep their dots up on the boss.

I hope they do something with spellspeed. Make dots tick more often and reduce aetherflow cooldown by spellspeed would help with the mana issue. Pet trait would work better too, because if pet crit you have chance spellspeed is increased, but if you do not stack spellspeed it is 100% useless trait. Ifrit would probably be more viable with spellspeed build too because ifrit attack 2x more often(because of auto attack) there would be 2x better chance spellspeed trait proc unlike garuda.

Originally Posted by Nemhy

Am I the only one that finds it kinda funny that Akiza has been bringing these points up for awhile now? Yet the general reception is like night and day...Akiza gets shut down and called a vicious troll, people saying she is full of crap ect. While this post is pretty much 100% positive and people are agreeing. Not calling anyone out just making an observation :P

As for the post itself...I agree with most stuff here but do not think we will see any real drastic changes until 2.45-2.5. If they change stats on shared gear people will flat out riot (it happened once before in the first tier of Allagan gear). TBH I think an easy fix would be so energy drain scales with Int. You still lose some DPS having to Energy drain but if it restores a respectable amount I can totally get behind it! One thing that I don't agree with is making is so Summoner can be super aggressive with Ruin II and have ZERO MP issues.

I really don't see why people hate akiza so much other than 2 reason:

1. They disagree with her opinion on what the class should be.
2.She doesn't always explain himself(herself?) properly when it comes to ideas. Thus making akiza seem incompetent to them because he throws many different ideas and tries to see which ones that stick.

In reality that lack of consistency and cohesion is what gets akiza lambasted the most, however if his posts were more well thought out people probably take him more seriously even if he does jump around a bit. People just don't want to give your ideas the benefit of the doubt more often than not and try to understand them...it ends up making them seem like arseholes sometimes because some of akiza's posts does make sense...just gotta try to translate them so it requires extra patience or braincells people don't seem have.However, sometimes even i am confused at his posts.People just act like all of them are bad....too busy attacking credibility instead of taking each post one by one.