In that same vein, I feel like SMN has been nerfed to the ground, with other pseudo-nerfs added like purify CD reduction and Warden's Paeon adding insult to injury. SMN has PVP abilities with very long cooldowns (BLM gets Phantom Dart down to 90sec, SMN Wither down to 180sec), and it's non-damaging PVP ability, Misty Veil feels lackluster (it reduces the targets range, best use is probably on an enemy healer).

If Wither stripped more buffs or was on a shorter CD, that would be good (our burst is not what it once was, and Wither is close range). Misty Veil is not nearly as useful as Nightwing (BLM's instant AoE sleep, same timer/reduction as Misty Veil), a strong range reduction would make it scarier (you can still remove it with Esuna/Leeches/etc which bothers me, you can sleep someone with Sleep, bait purify, then sleep with Nightwing), or some other buff a la Summoner in Blade and Soul (RIP) where they put up a ground AoE cloud that protects from ranged attacks that you can convert to do damage. That honestly would be really cool, even if only to block ranged attacks for a short duration.