Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

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SMN's actually quite good at the sac strat itself, since it lets you sac a healer in a DPS's place - we're talking about skipping a DPS death + 2 minutes of weakness. It is the MP burn ... you have two choices, either kill Strafs and SMN will earn its keep with decent DPS but you will be wasting a lot of total DPS on the Strafs you could just not attack, or you will let the MP burns happen and lament bringing SMN entirely because SMN loses multi-DoTs (and thus will be so low you shoulda just brought another MCH/BRD or melee) and MP and is just quite frankly garbage. Neither is very desirable if you're skipping Nisi since you don't need MP for your healers in that case.

It's funny, a couple months ago before I got to or even saw final phase I thought, man, there's GOTTA be some awesome LB3 moment in final phase. Something you bring caster for, 4 Strafs spawning at once or something and they'd blow up and kill you after 20s. Nope, never came to be I'd go BRD/MCH if I had the same gear, caster got dunked on for A4S in a "why bring this guy if you have MCH" sense.