What are summoners going to do now

[Suirieko]

Tri-BindThe duration has been reduced from 12 to 6 seconds.

That's really hilarious, SE. lol. Really.

[Suirieko]

I can't really judge how SMN is in PVP yet until I do several rounds. I'm out of town and haven't been able to have stable internet enough to play reliably, but on the paper, the nerfs looks pretty excessive.

The Tri-bind is just a slap to the face, when BLM can still do Bind AND Sleep, BOTH of which AoE, and both of which last a hell a lot longer than tri-bind now > >. Which is stupid.

The reduced bio/miasma/bio II duration? Meh. I never expected those to last long due to purify and pacing of the game, so this doesn't really bother me.

Deathflare AND painflare at the same time is pretty excessive. (Biased I know). Nerfing either would've been fine enough.

Summoners are best described as glass cannon. They can deliver a lot of pain, yes, but they're very easy to take down. Just about ANY Melee LB can one shot them.

Any monks can pretty much kill the summoner's flow (literally), and killing the aetherflow pretty much pacifies a summoner for about a minute (which is the recast of aetherflow, assuming it's not up). Fester is only effective IF all three debuffs are up, something that's easily countered with purify (and good healers that do pay attention and react fast if you have em). Point is, there's plenty of ways to stop and disable a summoner in their tracks, and it's so much easier to do so in The Feast now since it isn't as chaotic as Seal Rock.

I guess if anything, at least that'll slow the Heavensward summoner bandwagon >_>. I've been playing SMN since the start of 2.0.