Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Singularity]

If you're using Garuda, then yes this is a problem. Left to her own devices, she may use Contagion before you have a full set of DoTs up or Shockwave mobs in trash pulls away from the pack (which will annoy the other members of your party). Ifrit is mostly fine on automatic unless you want to avoid the target building up stun immunity.

Being at the bottom of the aggro table is pretty normal (assuming everyone in your party is equally skilled and geared). Remember your DPS is split between you and your pet and the pet has his/her own aggro bar.

[MariaNyan]

So, I've gotten this part down pretty much, but once it's done, I'm not sure what to do. I am getting frustrated because I can't even beat the regular Midas SSS. My gear is only 214 (and not melded at this time), but that's quite a bit beyond the min ilvl for Midas, and I know that it's the time between this cast order when I just sit there keeping dots up and waiting for Aetherflow to come back up, and spamming Ruin II. My spell speed is 795, will increasing that help? Is that the materia I should put on?

My old rotation with i220. should cover everything, dummy is a8s.

[AboHitham]

Alright, derpy question inbound.
I love SMN (because I can rezz and a DPS) but I feel like I do a terrible job when it comes to damage. I'm usually always on the bottom of the enmity bar, except for initial pulls, and only thing I leave out from my rotation are the pet commands. I just leave them on sic for the most part.
Is that what's affecting my DPS? Or am I just a terrible SMN? Is it okay to leave my pet on sic and occasionally give it commands?
I enjoy the class to bits because it's a nice relief to healing folks but I feel like I'm dragging my party down a lot and I just want to get better..
Gear and build if that helps:http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/V7OW

Maybe I should just try another DPS class..

enmity =/= dps for smn or any job use reduce enmity actions, I always be top dps and I in bottom of the enmity bar.

[uppfinnarn]

It's easy to forget that your pet's enmity bar is separate from yours. Enmity is also affected by Quelling Strikes, which makes it an unreliable metric - a much better one would be Stone Sky Sea (although that's only a metric of single target performance).

[Neela]

Alright, derpy question inbound.
I love SMN (because I can rezz and a DPS) but I feel like I do a terrible job when it comes to damage.
I'm usually always on the bottom of the enmity bar, except for initial pulls, and only thing I leave out from my rotation are the pet commands.
don't mind it

I just leave them on sic for the most part.
Is that what's affecting my DPS?
Is it okay to leave my pet on sic and occasionally give it commands?
Like others said Garuda should be used manually... her skills are best in direct combination with your own.
F.e cong with trisaster, misasra2 or her aoe skill with your dot-spreading skill. if you let her fight on her own,
you will face 2 situations which are annoying for you (wasted dot extand) and your tank/melees (her pushback atk).

I enjoy the class to bits because it's a nice relief to healing folks but I feel like I'm dragging my party down a lot and I just want to get better..
Gear and build if that helps:http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/V7OW

if you want to increase dmg via materia/gearsets - there are three stats which can combine in different ways for different effects:
det will increase your base dmg for dots, burst and your egi. ss increase dot dmg as well, but mainly decrease your cds you may get an extra Ruin III while in trance. crit for raw dmg self explaining: up to 3k ruin lll, 5k fester, 12k deathflare. most common build is (like nearly in all dd cls) is crit/det, but crit/ss could come in handy if you build your rota with raw over dot dmg - det/ss for the opposite, dot & egi dmg.



Maybe I should just try another DPS class..
Nope don't give up or let your enjoyment fade... just practice, try and error is totally normal and to be honest... fun should always stay above statistics/rankinglists.

so long
Neela ^__^ /

[Jukebox12]

Any tips for summoner for seph ex.. i think this the best place to post this

[MaeIsMean]

My old rotation with i220. should cover everything, dummy is a8s.

Are you talking about this one?

Thought of sharing my dummy SSS-A8S run on my i220 SMN, you might learn one or two things there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aXL...ature=youtu.be

My opener looks like this, if you don't use pot you want to put rouse and spur into the pot-slot. I highly believe that this rotation is the right way to go. Since SMN is my offclass its stuck @ i220, but i can offer some fflog parses in pugs for some other numbers. http://www.fflogs.com/rankings/9#cla...&spec=Summoner

[IceSpear]

Anyone have an up to date Bis they could share?

[frostfirefawcett]

Anyone have an up to date Bis they could share?

Not sure if someone came with a better one or not but this was a BiS I posted on Reddit a few months ago:

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/TYQK

I would love to know if there is a better set though.

[MariaNyan]

Updated my SMN-gear, close to BIS but still one or two things to tweak - well shouldn't make too big of a difference.
I get around 1900 substained(!) Dps on my SMN on single target without food and pot, was wondering what others can put up on numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCl_OXsmDKo