Quote Originally Posted by Sleigh View Post
SMN has nothing right now. Battle rez is pointless unless you're in Shiva, the one semi-relevant fight you can have more than 2 deaths in succession and come out victorious. Dying so often in T10-13 is more often than not cause for an immediate wipe.

There are multiple topics on SMN being outclassed already though. Everything's been covered basically.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...N-Class-Issues
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...MN-s-need-help!

Hopefully there are buffs in 2.5 but the devs haven't even acknowledged there are SMN issues, even if their testers who played SMN, during the development/testing of FCoB, should have asked for fixes right at the start of 2.4.
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Summoner is generally fine but they have got hit really hard with two things:

1) Poor gear optimisation (Either they need their own gearset, or pet needs to scale off spellspeed)
2) Resource issues

Fix those, and you'll have a strong dps class that doesn't take much of a hit of dps from movement like BLM, doesn't have positional's like Monk/dragoon and is ranged (unlike ninja). They also have raise, and they have fantastic sustained AOE with 4 targets if you can bane (which, honestly, is few and far between in Final coil).