Quote Originally Posted by Ryans View Post
There is one person in this thread that has actually seen the bigger picture. Not enough magic DDs.

Bards play paeon for melee because they run out of tp in end game fights. We all know that. Bards don't play ballad because there aren't enough caster DDs to warrant ballad. The problem isn't that Summoner runs out MP. It is that there aren't enough caster jobs that function like the rest of DDs in the game. Black mage is stupidly simple and it makes a horrible tool to compare to. They nerfed Ninja's TP management because it could basically go forever and yet there is a job designed around not having to manage it's resources.

If melee didn't rely on bards to play paeon, they would have to manage their TP and sacrifice dps just like Summoner currently does. So stop trying to get Summoner to have an infinite pool. We don't need more Blm-esque jobs. Ask for more casters jobs so that ballad will actually get sung.
ya and let 3 mages share 1 magical DPS slot. Even if the new mage will have limited resources, you think a bard would play for that one new mage only? Yeah no...

But back to the MP problem - was doing Shiva ex yesterday and damn... switching to BLM elimitated so many issues I had with SMN, it's crazy.
Sustain, re-summoning, multi-dotting (yeah, I'm looking at that stupid single golem >_> because of PS3... I mean Bane limitations), using Ifrit (no contagion), Shadow Flare, occasional reviving to "try" to save the raid. I mean that's why I used to like SMN because of the variety of thinks he could do but lately, it gets overshadowed by others, who specialize into their role.

The Sustain "buff" was a huge nerf for us back then, the reason why they changed it from HP to MP is way beyond me.
Bringing back Thunder would mean even more mp problems.