Quote Originally Posted by Craiger View Post
Why is DoTs useless in this game?

Makes no sense that they should specialize in AoE burst... why would anyone bring you to a raid with that? If you need AoE(both burst and sustained), then BLM is light years ahead, and SE putting SMN ahead of BLM on AoE, would be the most stupid thing they could do.

SMN should be a job with high single target sustained DPS, while BLM is the AoE kings with high burst.

I see a lot of people who wants more AoE for SMN, but are all talking about dungeon runs or something? because it's not the lack of AoE that's causing the low amount of SMNs in raids...
People want Summoner to have more AoE because SE stance on Melee having high single target sustained DPS while casters have low sustained single target damage. Also most modern MMORPGS since DCUO which have DoT classes give them 3-4 reliable AoE Bursts while DoTs are secondary. Most modern MMORPG s the Pet class is attached to the Sorceror.