Enjoy Summoner before it gets nerfed...

[Buff_Archer]

Story of SMNs life. People are fine when it's their class that's op or has the clear advantage over another. Melee having insane burst, the ability to basically leap to casters and bards stun locking us into oblivion wasn't fair either but we've dealt with it. Atleast now smns can actually defend themselves better 1v1 against those two classes. It's not as one sided as it used to be. It's not like smns are unkillable. In most cases, the person who strikes first will be the victor. If a tank grabs you it's pretty much nothing you can do and because you are so squishy you will also die in mere seconds just as someone else would had you popped everything on them. All they did was give us the means to do as much damage single target as others can do to us without stacking anything.

Yeah and if your party has no healer and the other does, you can easily waste a tridisaster and find yourself having to hardcast the dot's which doesn't work so well vs. melees, esp those supported by a healer. Healers make such a difference, and the presence of one on the other team coupled with the lack of one on yours even more so... but they've made healing so unrewarding, no achievements like slaughterhouse, and I'm sick of chasing 3 PUGs around supporting their battle hig/fever cause I was the one to suck it up and change classes, and after they didn't die and we win they zip out without even bothering to leave with a commendation. Meanwhile they got extra kills towards their achievements. I think SMN has a different set of circumstances in which it excels than other classes but not to a degree that it's as overpowered as people think. And a lot of people just aren't used to contending with Summoners for a long time, I did Secure mode as SMN and found I had to give it up in Slaughter.

[Vallhallix]

I think SMN has a different set of circumstances in which it excels than other classes but not to a degree that it's as overpowered as people think.

Agreed

Imo before this huge upgrade to our skillset we were lagging behind when it came to pvps. Sure we could do insane damage but a lot of that was from dots/aoe which either got purified on healed through. You always felt like you weren't doing much compared to brds/blms/drgs. It was possible to get a high number of KOs but most of the time you were just stealing kills from other people because your dot just happened to tick while they had an inch of health left. Now I feel as though smn is on an even level with other classes as far as disposing targets quickly. The damage is about even with a blm. As my blm I could cast 2-3 fires on a target and usually got a proc after that their health was as diminished as a smn popping everything and deathflare is basically the swiftcast flare finisher.