Thread: 2.4 SMN Class Issues

Originally Posted by Akiza

The Summoner is broken in terms of balance because there is no point in bringing them to Raids besides nerfing your party. The Summoner use to excel at single target damage over the Black Mage until the Black Mage got buff. Now the Black Mage excels at both Single Target and AoE Bursts Damage which leaves the Summoner with nothing.

You're talking in exaggerations. Given your dots and the possible use of Ruin II you can keep up most of your DPS - for a short amount of time due to mana-constraints - while being exceedingly mobile.

Originally Posted by silentstack

You're talking in exaggerations. Given your dots and the possible use of Ruin II you can keep up most of your DPS - for a short amount of time due to mana-constraints - while being exceedingly mobile.

Black Mages have infinite Mana and since the Buff they now excel at both single target and aoe burst damage while the Summoner is in the middle of the pack at best. The Summoner got silently nerfed in 2.2 while the Black Mage and other dps classes got buffed.