Apparently I'm distracting (and not the good kind)

[Kabooa]

I hate Ice II with a passion, that's why I'm so glad it sucks so much for BLM that I could literally throw the skill away (from my hotbar)
I never saw it used anywhere since 2013 (because ARR was new and people were still figuring stuff out)

Because it used to be 100 potency on the GCD with absolutely no downtime, thus making it a faster cast than fire 2 without the downtime and without requiring a target, thus meaning you never had to worry about your target being killed by someone else and thus losing out on the cast time.

I think straight up blizz2 spam was around 80% of what you could do than fire2.

For all the convenience it was an acceptable loss of DPS.

[MagiusNecros]

Oh Bliz2 is pretty great...as a PVP skill...when Freeze is no longer an option.

That said yes Summoners get more mileage off of it.

[Waliel]

Blizzard 2 was used in a double Flare rotation when it was still possbile back in the day. The rotation was F3 - F2 'til low - Flare - B2 - B2 - Flare - Flare- B2 - B2 - etc. It required some timing to get it right and was absolutely devastating to whiff it, but it put out more DPS than the normal F2 AoE rotation when done correctly.

The way how they "fixed" it still haunts us to this day.

[Critical-Limit]

I know you were being nice to them to just finish the run. But to be truly nice to them they needed to know they were wrong or they are gonna prey on the next SMN until someone sets them straight. Oh well they'll run into an elitist SMN that can destroy them with potency numbers eventually lol.

[enthauptet]

You should stand in melee range when spamming ruin 2 on single target anyway for auto attacks. (seems dumb but it does increase dps a bit)

[Kuwagami]

As dumb as it may seem, SMN is kinda a melee mage because you get more both in AoE and single target by being in melee range (blizz2 and ruin2/book spaking)

Of course it's situational (if you stack too many people in melee range you might hinder melee dps more than you'll gain by being in melee range yourself) but it's still here.

[Piconjo]

You've nothing to worry about. You were doing your job. Like people said before me, that person was a bad player. Cobtinute to rock SMN the only way you can.