Best Disciple of Magic DPS class

[Conradus]

Hello everyone,

I have been playing as an Arcanist/Summoner so far. I was wondering if I would be having more fun as a Thaumaturge/Black Mage? I know this might just come down to a which one you prefer to play or the play style that I have. Just trying to get an idea of how others see the classes. Also, which would be better in end game PvE content?

Thank you in advance for your responses.

GEM

BLM is of course more pure offense. No healing spells at all (Summoner is the DPS side of Arcanist, of course, and Duty Finder will class you as a DPS, but you still have a little bit of healing in there). If you want to pump out pure big numbers, you want BLM. But you give up flexibility. Up to you. Both are good in the end-game--you certainly don't see any lack of Summoners there.

[Delta041]

As far as raw numbers are concerned, BLM > SMN

BLM is also a bit more fun to level, with you getting your main AoE attack at level 18 instead of 30 or later like most classes. You also get into your main damage rotations a lot faster than SMN, who don't really change dramatically till they get Dreadwyrm Trance at 58.

SMN has the advantage of being a lot easier to do solo content with since they have their own personal tanking pet. The class is also pretty forgiving of input mistakes since their main damage comes from automatic DoT ticks and pet attacks instead of damage spells.