So BLM as AOE covered, MNK has single target... What does SMN bring?

[Sleigh]

The amount of people that say SMN is a sustained DMG class, Makes me cringe.

Damage from DOTS =/= Sustained DMG.

NIN/DRG and MNK deal better Sustained DMG than SMN.

SMN's DPS has a small RAMP up then falls continuously with every dot re-application through-out the fight.

To be fair it was true in 2.0 compared to the other DPS at the time, which might have stuck with people.

If I had to label SMN now, as what it's good at, I'd merely say it's a multi-DoT caster, much in the same way that I labeled 2.2 BLM an AoE Flare bot and nothing more. Unfortunately in T12 and T13, BLM is better at the situations where there are multiple targets, T11 has no meaningful two target situations (you can't do stuff to 2/3 of the adds without a DPS loss) and T10, the enemies don't live long enough or make up a large enough potion of the fight to make it better than a BLM merely Flaring a bit extra.