Quote Originally Posted by Wintersandman View Post
You can almost guarantee one or two of these is going to be a new summon. So that leaves 4-5 new job abilities that will differentiate scholar and summoner. I personally wouldn't mind more dots. I love my dots.

SCH is underwhelming when it comes to dots in comparison to SMN. I know they are the same but go grind away killing things as SCH and then go do it as SMN and tell me which one is easier.

Also I laugh at anyone claiming Summoner has been abandoned. I see more SMN than BLMs. Also I have seen a good SMN/MNK combo burn down an aoe pack just as effectively as a BLM. Maybe not as quickly but it wasn't enough to scoff at.

Dot's have way more damage potential than you are giving them credit for.
You must be on a rare unicorn server then. In the endgame scene i see VERY few SMNs. Most of the SMNs I know have changed to BLM since 2.4 and haven't looked back.