Shadow Flare needs a new effect.

[Bigcat9715]

I'd recommend not thinking about Shadowflare as a utility ability, but rather a damage dealing ability with builtin utility. It's useful when that part of it works, but the damage on Shadowflare is very valuable on both Summoner and Scholar. Also if they changed the debuff to vulnerability it would be overpowered unless they put a cooldown on it which would potentially make the arcanist crowd unhappy.

Maybe it's just me, because I play both SMN and BLM, so I see Smn underwhelming. SMN abilities like Miasma 2 and Shadowflare has such a low potency that the only way to make them good is if you have them up all the time. Hell I barely see other Smns use miasma 2 when I'm running dungeons.