Quote Originally Posted by Lavieh View Post
Most classes spike whenever they have their buffs up again. All of their buffs effect all of their skills whilst RoS only effects the SMN and Spur/Rouse only effect the pet. We don't see big spikes we don't have forced spikes throughout our damage. I think RoS, food and Int pots should effect the pet and that would easily balance out SMN DPS. Putting Enkindle on a 60 second would be interesting as well.

DoT Potencies would effect SMN's AoE and right now SMN has really good AoE. They have the strongest AoE in certain situations (4 or less mobs that are alive for 30 seconds).
Your description of SMN AoE is spot on. It's also a very specific niche type of "best damage". As to the OP about arcanist being a beautiful class with it's disease/pet combo, I couldn't really disagree more. Summoner has always been my favorite final fantasy job throughout the series. Having the bulk of our damage come from disease spells feels very out of place to me.