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    Kyani Jawantal
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    Sargatanas
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    Arcanist Lv 60
    Okay, Dimitrii - you are a summoner. You have exhausted Dreadwyrm Trance and Cometeor, but did not kill anyone, so your LB bar is under half full. What do you do to be useful for the rest of the fight? Your options are

    - Bio/Bio2 people and hope it helps (0 direct potency)
    - Try to bind targets (20 Potency)
    - Miasma priority targets (35 Potency + dot)
    - Spam Ruin II (strictly better than Ruin) - 80 potency
    - Cast a few Ruin IIIs (120 potency, then you're even more useless than before)

    Let's get this straight: the absolute best possible case for Summoner is being able to Scathe (with a cast time) a handful of times before losing access to the little utility you have. Every other option is worse than Black Mage's filler panic-mode nuke at applying kill pressure. Are unboosted weaponskills amazing? No. But they're a hell of a lot better than any of those at actually killing someone. A completely unbuffed (no HT) Full Thrust combo is twice as much potency as 3 Scathes / Ruin IIIs, with the last hit being a significant amount of pressure by itself.
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    Last edited by Kyani; 01-23-2016 at 06:39 AM.