Dev silence about SMN

[Gouka]

SE has a long and storied history of being terrified of pet jobs. They either make them extremely niche or err on the side of nerfdom when attempting to balance them. I forget where I saw it - and someone please correct me if I'm wrong - but I read that they never intended to put any pet jobs in FFXIV at all, except that when they polled between 1.x and 2.0, the playerbase overwhelmingly desired SMN as a new job. The job was produced, had a very strong initial showing, but now they're afraid of overpowering the pet/master balance and so they allow the other DPS jobs to shine a little bit brighter than SMN.

[Dyvid]

SE has a long and storied history of being terrified of pet jobs. They either make them extremely niche or err on the side of nerfdom when attempting to balance them. I forget where I saw it - and someone please correct me if I'm wrong - but I read that they never intended to put any pet jobs in FFXIV at all, except that when they polled between 1.x and 2.0, the playerbase overwhelmingly desired SMN as a new job. The job was produced, had a very strong initial showing, but now they're afraid of overpowering the pet/master balance and so they allow the other DPS jobs to shine a little bit brighter than SMN.

Well this hasn't been an issue until FCoB. In fact before that it was just a couple of people complaining that Summoner didn't feel summon~y enough. Also you my be correct that Tanaka's FFXIV didn't want a pet job but once Yoshi-P took over it was all bets are off.

[RyuDragnier]

Well this hasn't been an issue until FCoB. In fact before that it was just a couple of people complaining that Summoner didn't feel summon~y enough. Also you my be correct that Tanaka's FFXIV didn't want a pet job but once Yoshi-P took over it was all bets are off.

Which is probably why SMN will be getting a few adjustments anywhere from 2.5 to 3.0. They've already adjusted almost all the classes based on Coil, so it's SMN's turn.