Patch Notes Up

[Vespar]

SMN change is pathetic, and wont change SMNs low dps at all

low? If you have low DPS I think your playing SMN wrong. You do realize dots alone can reach 500+ a tick right? Then add in your pet, then add in your own DPS after Dots, and you could really be doing a lot of damage. The only difference is that is sustained dmg over time, rather than big spurts of numbers. I dont parse, but Ive seen good SMN's annhilate stuff and leave the other DPS in their tracks.

[QuinceTaru]

did anyone notice the arcanist and marauder ilvl 50 items aren't listed in the notes but every other class has one? :x

Ya i noticed that wonder if its messed up or inono

[Skeith-Adeline]

low? If you have low DPS I think your playing SMN wrong. You do realize dots alone can reach 500+ a tick right? Then add in your pet, then add in your own DPS after Dots, and you could really be doing a lot of damage. The only difference is that is sustained dmg over time, rather than big spurts of numbers. I dont parse, but Ive seen good SMN's annhilate stuff and leave the other DPS in their tracks.

Err that's not how DPS works lol.
I'd say SMNs have the lowest effective DPS. Bards have lower DPS but their Effective DPS is huge (between paeon's and Foe's)

[CGMidlander]

I'm ready.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAxZVZgpmI0

[Sessurea]

It will just lengthen the life of smn dps for fcob.

Zodiac is disappointing if it's copy/paste of nexus.

[Faelandaea]

Once your Zodiac weapon has been affixed with mahatma, you may increase its soul resonance level by equipping it and completing certain activities. Once you have achieved full soul resonance and your Zodiac weapon has sufficiently awakened, present it to Jalzahn, and you will be rewarded with a Zodiac weapon zeta of item level 135 that retains all the upgrades made to the original Zodiac weapon.

A weapon’s soul resonance level will rise by a set value determined by the activity being undertaken. There may be times when a bonus is applied to the soul resonance value ordinarily granted. By sharing information with other players, you will be able to level up your Zodiac Weapon more efficiently.

Resonance progress can be verified through the use of the Zodiac glass.

After receiving your Zodiac weapon zeta, you will be able to alter its materia-enhanced parameters. Prepare a sphere scroll of the correct type to receive the power of your chosen Zodiac weapon, then use materia and alexandrite to redo the infusion process.
* The materia-enhanced properties of a Zodiac weapon zeta will be transferred to a sphere scroll after being adjusted to item level 110 values. When returned to the Zodiac weapon zeta, these values will be re-adjusted to be item level 135.

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[Picori]

SMN dps is not low just dot ticks don't show up in parsers good so people think its low. 8 man party dot ticks over 1k+ highest seen 1.7k on a crit in T11. Add garuda, ruin, and also poison pots work with contagion your doing massive dps. Now ruin is less mp just trying to cover the cries of SMN's saying there mp is gone.

[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.

[sackm]

low? If you have low DPS I think your playing SMN wrong. You do realize dots alone can reach 500+ a tick right? Then add in your pet, then add in your own DPS after Dots, and you could really be doing a lot of damage. The only difference is that is sustained dmg over time, rather than big spurts of numbers. I dont parse, but Ive seen good SMN's annhilate stuff and leave the other DPS in their tracks.

Ive cleared FCoB and parsed above 480 on every turn so yeah I know how to play SMN. I'll grant that outside of coil SMN is really good on many fights. But at the end of the day our sustained single target damage is pathetically low, there is something fundamentally wrong when MNK/BLM/NIN/DRG can all hit 530+ on T11 and SMN struggles to even hit 500.

[sackm]

SMN dps is not low just dot ticks don't show up in parsers good so people think its low. 8 man party dot ticks over 1k+ highest seen 1.7k on a crit in T11. Add garuda, ruin, and also poison pots work with contagion your doing massive dps. Now ruin is less mp just trying to cover the cries of SMN's saying there mp is gone.

Parsers being inaccurate is not true, and hasn't been since SCOB released. Dont spread misinformation.