Summoner Changes Compiled: Is there more?

[BreathlessTao]

That Ruin III.... triple the cost for 1.5 potency AND added cast timer AND losing additional debuff effect. Man. Like, what were they thinking? It's indeed pretty ridiculous when compared to SCH's Broil which has a higher potency AND lower MP cost than Ruin III.

Yes, there is DWT. A 15s buff for 10% additional damage overall, that eats up all our Aetherflow stacks (have to use all 3 to activate it). 15 seconds. Never understood these 15s effects - when you have to dance around most of the time dodging AoEs or working some other mechanics, you have 2-2.5s cast times... ugh.

All that while having a pet to manage.

As for Painflare - yeah, that one is nice, except... it's just like a mass-Fester. Without having to apply the individual DoTs, but on a separate cooldown. ... Not sure I see the point.

And let's not even mention the total screw-over that is spell speed - if I haven't seen virtually everyone doing SMN knocking spell speed completely off their relics (and ranking it as far behind everything else as possible on other gear), because it was completely useless, then I haven't seen anyone doing that at all. And all of a sudden - BAM, in your rear, now it's actually needed. Yeah, thank you very much, SE.