Quote Originally Posted by Akiza View Post
People have been complaining about Summoner since day one do even if I stopped complaining 3 more people would take my place and complain aout the Summoner. DoT classes are useless in fast pace games like FFXIV because DPS can bursts enemies down before DoTs get their full duration which is a DPS loss to Summoner being mostly DoT. That's why for this game Summoner should be a Summoner/Ekementalist with the Pet specializing Massive AoE Bursts Damage.
I disagree. While burst type jobs can do great damage up front, it requires a huge amount of resources to do so, usually in the form of MP. Over a medium period of time, say a minute, a DoT class and a burst class will do the same amount of damage in that period of time. That's good balance. Over a longer period of time, the DoT, played properly, can pull ahead of the burster in terms of damage done.

That's not to say that Summoner could use improvements, especially in the AoE department. I don't think anyone is asking that SMN be ahead of BLM, but some equity with the above in mind would be in order.