SMN Theorycraft and comparison to Blm

[Havenchild]

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I am quite aware of what SMN damage is currently at, as I main the class thoroughly. I am however not oblivious to the fact that BLMs are pulling higher numbers on single target then SMNs. Both SMN and BLM haven't changed dramatically from their pre-heavensward counterparts. If you were good or bad in either class, you will be in the same place post expansion. Do I feel SMNs will jump back to BLM? Yes. Largely because the community tends to jump to whatever does more damage. DRGs and SMNs proved this in FCOB, BLMs proved it in SCOB. However there were people who mained these classes regardless in the raiding scenario and did great damage that broke the stigmas for these classes among their peers.

"If one part of a Summoner's damage is performed incorrectly, the rest of his damage will still be going."
Sure that's true, but on the same token, your damage can spiral downward very quickly on SMN if any of those things mess up. Your pet dies? DPS drops heavily. During Progression, your Pet has a high chance of dying due to not understanding how to position them correctly. To say either class won't be hurt in a blind situation is a misguided foresight. Everyone will suffer the same way until they get comfortable. On SMN, you won't have proper CD or AF management for several pulls as you will likely continue to do a Striking Dummy rotation until you realize new ways to optimize your damage. Same applies to BLM. Any good BLM given a few pulls, will start positioning themselves to prepare for opportune ways to handle mechanics. Now to say one class is invalidated over another, that goes purely on a turn by turn basis. One can easily destroy the other on a different turn as it's always been. (T8 easily a BLM fight, while T9 was better for SMNs)

Look at T10 or T11 for example, sure movement based mechanics was a terrible thing in both of those turns, and yet BLM still achieved the top parses universally (Non-cheese strats). Movement is not some crazy inhibitor for good BLMs. They will work around it as they always have to achieve great damage.

If you play with the most exceptional Black Mage and the most exceptional Summoner in the world, you'll likely find the Black Mage dealing a small amount of extra damage. The difference in their single target damage is not as large as you might believe.

The gap to me seems as much as it was during 2.55 FCOB. Could it be possible that you aren't playing with good BLMs on Gilgamesh who are maining the class? Haru pretty much shuts down your entire argument about DPS not being so different.