Summoner or Ninja?

[Ryu_Hayabusaa]

black mage or monk instead.

[Craiger]

Didn't wanna make a new thread to ask this, but might be a little off topic...

What DPS do you think SMN should have to be balanced?

Early on in ARR, people thought SMN was OP, because they had pretty high DPS and still had tons of utility etc etc... but do they really have that much utility or other things?

SMN doesn't have particularly good AoE when there's more than 4 enemies, and BLM wins on that hands down anyways.

BLM have good utility too, and unless there's some big change to SMN's res, I don't think it's worth not just letting the healers do it... Very few people run with a SMN in their static, and I haven't really heard people mentioning that they could have used another player who can res... BLM has Apocas(whatever) too, which can actually be helpful.

The biggest weakness about SMN right now though IMO, is that they have Zero burst damage, which is kinda important many times, and BLM is just miles ahead on this.

I don't think they should just make SMN like BLM though, but I think their DPS should be higher than BLM, not as high as the melee ofc, but still high enough to make up for that low burst damage.

I haven't even mentioned that BLM has no problem with MP, which maybe SMN doesn't really have anymore(not sure), but it's still a big bonus for BLM, especially if you die and BLM gets up to full in a couple of secs, while SMN have to summon pet and need MP song.