Quote Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo View Post
Better gear returns could also work, though I admit I'm not sure how that's normally implemented in an MMO (without it affecting BLM, with whom SMN shares gear).
They'd just need to adjust the damage equation for gear stats so that it scales the same as other classes.

For example. SMN damage increases 3% per magic damage stat. BLM increases by about 3.7%.

The pet gets about 6% per MD which combined with SMN equals out to a scaling of 3.75% so technically on par with BLM, except that the pet doesn't gain from secondary stats(except crit) and has a 3s cast time. So the % of pet damage has terrible scaling vs other classes too which throws off SMN even more.

So that's why people think just a potency/mp increase wont be a long term fix. The whole damage equation for SMN vs other classes and pet vs other classes and SMN + pet vs other classes needs adjustment.