The problem with Summoners

[Craiger]

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.

No offense, but do you raid?

Raid fights are long, and burst damage doesn't matter on those... where it matters are adds, and yes, SMN are weaker on those than BLM, but if SMN have higher sustained DPS than BLM in 3.0, then that would be good too.

Also, how would AoE burst help SMN in raids?

Raids are what matters, cause if we're gonna balance towards other content, then MNK's are f'cking useless for example...

EDIT: Not everyone raids, but that's what the balancing is made for, that's why I said that...