Fix Sumnmoner

[Crescent_Dusk]

More mistifying is the pitifully short range of the pets' aoe moves or the cooldowns on them. Not to mention Enkindle's cooldown that's another level of silly.

But they repeat that a lot in this game. The ninja's mug and assassinate have pretty low potency, but for some reason an execute ability only usable at 20% health not only does as much damage as a second step of an ability chain, but has a 1 minute cooldown to boot. A monk's Howling Fist is a slightly stronger rockbreaker on a similarly long cd.

They just seem fond of placing inane cd's on unremarkable abilities for no reason whatsoever.

[Sequora]

For once I agree with something Akiza said. Back in the first year of ARR, Yoshi-P was asked if they had plans to put more emphasis on the pet. His answer back in 2013, was that he did not have any plans for this as they did not want to confuse new players. Fast forward one year, and ninja was said to have such high DPS/utility because of the complexity of the class. So apparently some classes are designed for less skilled players and others are supposed to be designed for more complex players? Is that what I'm hearing? I think (or I at least hope) that SE is finally listening to the player base about SMN. Some people have asked for crazy drastic changes. I for one think that the damage from the summoner will always be DoT based, and I'm totally fine with that. I do hope it's changed to elemental DoTs just fore lore sake. I also would like to see a much heavier focus on the pet. The summoner should have more abilities like enkindle where the summoner commands their pet to use an ability.

[pandabearcat]

They just need to fix dot tracking.

SMN vs any world boss = shooting in the dark as to whether your dots will show up or not.

[Akiza]

They need to fix a lot more than DoT tracking unless they want to be forced to design endgame content around the Summoner every time they think about adding new content.

[Zohar_Lahar]

They just need to fix dot tracking.

SMN vs any world boss = shooting in the dark as to whether your dots will show up or not.

This tends to affect every class with DoTs, not just even arcanist.

[Crescent_Dusk]

Yeah, WoD is a nightmare for any class with important dots to track. Summoner for festers and a monk who needs to know about demolish uptimes.

[Xenosan]

They just need to fix dot tracking.

SMN vs any world boss = shooting in the dark as to whether your dots will show up or not.

I'm not sure if this applies here, but you can filter target settings so that only your debuffs show on the Target Bar. That doesn't fix your problem?

Or is it like DRG's Disembowel where Disembowel doesn't stack therefore if another DRG throws disembowel up yours disappears?

SMN/MNK should definitely be stacking though..

[scribble92]

You can filter the settings so that only your debuffs show on the target.... But if its not on those first 30(?) they still wont show. Plus you cant see if virus has been used or not so can end up wasting it. Also cant see other debuffs like trick attack or foes requiem so its hard to see when you maximise damage

[rawker]

omg. 2 of the most infamous people in the forums joining up. /shock

[Judge_Xero]

For once I agree with something Akiza said. Back in the first year of ARR, Yoshi-P was asked if they had plans to put more emphasis on the pet. His answer back in 2013, was that he did not have any plans for this as they did not want to confuse new players. Fast forward one year, and ninja was said to have such high DPS/utility because of the complexity of the class. So apparently some classes are designed for less skilled players and others are supposed to be designed for more complex players? Is that what I'm hearing? I think (or I at least hope) that SE is finally listening to the player base about SMN. Some people have asked for crazy drastic changes. I for one think that the damage from the summoner will always be DoT based, and I'm totally fine with that. I do hope it's changed to elemental DoTs just fore lore sake. I also would like to see a much heavier focus on the pet. The summoner should have more abilities like enkindle where the summoner commands their pet to use an ability.

I agree it seems weird. One of the hardest classes to optimize and the worry is on not making the pet too complex/significant? People who don't care about being good can just keep their Pet on Sick if it's too complex, since they already do with how simple it is anyways.

The only major thing will be the balance of pets taking too much/too little, as if there is great emphasis on the pet and it dies....well, people think there are a ton of SMN threads popping up now, that'll make the forums explode.

Don't want to have the pets tanking fights either (Ramuh EX)