I originally wanted to play smn but ended up playing a blm because they felt the closest to their past incarnations to me. (But I did level all the DoM jobs just because they all appeal to me in some form.) The look of the egi\\'s wasn\\'t what turned me off from it it was the dot aspect of smn that did.

I have recently taken to playing smn in my down time between grinding out my relic for the blm and while doing tome runs (I hate the fact that blm has been forced into aoe sonic zooms. Speed runs just don\\'t appeal to me and people assume that\\'s what I want to do when I\\'m on my blm). And the smn class has grown on me. I like it how it is though I\\'d like one that actually plays out on where 75% of the damage give or take comes from the summons. I can happily play it how it is.