Patch Notes Up

[Itseotle]

low? If you have low DPS I think your playing SMN wrong. You do realize dots alone can reach 500+ a tick right?

Yes, and dots tick every 3 seconds. 500 damage every 3 seconds is 166 DPS [Damage Per Second] When you think about it that way, 500 dot dmg really isn't a lot.
BUT I do agree that SMN dps is not as terrible as it seems, just there sustain. Case in point, my Coil static SMN was pulling about 520 on Cerberus until he got killed xP

there is something fundamentally wrong when MNK/BLM/NIN/DRG can all hit 530+ on T11 and SMN struggles to even hit 500.

Its resource management, as has been stated many times before. TP-based DPS get Goad or Paeon. Very rarely will Ballad be played in Coil situations, but one of those 2 TP abilities will always be given.