Can someone give me an in-depth explanation why Summoner is arguably the worst DPS?

[Lavieh]

I feel like I've been a pretty prominent poster when it comes to SMN and their DPS problems and one of the things I have noticed is that ALOT of SMN's refused to accept anything I have to say just because they are a SMN.

I love SMN, I still play it from time to time and it still has my heart as my "most" favorite class but I can easily accept that they are weak. Everyone wanted to elude to the mana problem as the main problem but I knew for a fact that wasn't the only issue and that their DPS is a lot lower than what others are able to do. I mean there are several SMN's out their doing their best and they still don't even hold a candle to the potential that BLM has. Stop taking personal offence to SMN's lack of DPS. Accept it and collaborate with the rest of the community and then maybe something will be change.

[Romsca]

I love SMN, I still play it from time to time and it still has my heart as my "most" favorite class but I can easily accept that they are weak. Everyone wanted to elude to the mana problem as the main problem but I knew for a fact that wasn't the only issue and that their DPS is a lot lower than what others are able to do. I mean there are several SMN's out their doing their best and they still don't even hold a candle to the potential that BLM has. Stop taking personal offence to SMN's lack of DPS. Accept it and collaborate with the rest of the community and then maybe something will be change.

Whole heartedly agree with you. And if by chance I was one those taking offense to the lack of dps, I wasn't and have been suggesting that weapon damage be tweaked to increase our dps without altering the class playstyle.

[Aikaal]

Whole heartedly agree with you. And if by chance I was one those taking offense to the lack of dps, I wasn't and have been suggesting that weapon damage be tweaked to increase our dps without altering the class playstyle.

More mana won't change a thing. There's few way to fix Summoners. They can't buff Scholars because they don't need it so they can't really touch Arcanists. I could easily see a change in Fester to be the key to fix their mana issue. They need to revamp Tri-disaster to give utility. It's useless like Apocastasis used to be trash and it's so good now.

[Romsca]

More mana won't change a thing. There's few way to fix Summoners. They can't buff Scholars because they don't need it so they can't really touch Arcanists. I could easily see a change in Fester to be the key to fix their mana issue. They need to revamp Tri-disaster to give utility. It's useless like Apocastasis used to be trash and it's so good now.

First, larger mana pool extends our fight time before running out of resources and taking a drastic drop in dps, much like melee, which blm does not suffer from even if they die. Second, buffing the piety to mana conversion at the soulstone does not affect arcanist and scholar. Third, fester is fine. And finally there is another thread for tri disaster, in which I suggested that instead it should put bio, bio 2, and miasma at half their normal duration on target, instant cast and 30 second cooldown.