Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Havenchild]

I would say, as long as you are killing things/beating enrage on a fight like A4S, you shouldn't really give a crap about your personal DPS. This fight is a total mess design wise, and gets harder the more geared you get. We are at the point where we have to stop DPS during the first quarantine and wait for the people in quarantine to get out or else they die by mortal revolution.

Quarantine is cancer for any DPS. Even as a BLM, I will either have to A. Prepare for it(but that would be a dps loss if I DON'T get sent into quarantine). or B. Continue w/ my normal rotation and pray I don't get quarantine.

After this reset, I will be doing A1-4s on SMN. However, I will really only ever do A4S on Summoner w/ the nisi strat. I just don't see myself ever doing A4S on SMN with the other strat. However, you probably already do this but on the 3rd/4th leg and final phase, since your mana is going to hit 0 anyway, you can probably go crazy w/ ruin 3s outside of trance which would kind of make up for the potency loss from replacing a fester by energy drain I think ?

Well the Ruin III thing, I was already kinda low on MP depending on how the fight turned out so yeah it's some minor help for DPS. If you get a chance and don't mind, could you give some details of how you decided to handle things like quarantine and the adds for example. See I've held things like Tri-Disaster and AF for quarantine or adds because otherwise either A ) tank gets way too many stacks in quarantine or B) Jagds take long to die otherwise and thinking its costing me alot of DPS.

We just don't enrage dolls in my group cause bard, smn. Still let nisi drop though.

The dream strat. RIP all the SMNs taking that MP burn consecutive times.