Summoner and the upcoming changes

[HyperSMB]

I love the way Summoner looks. Simplified, less centered around balancing umpteen timers and more around dedicated moments of power.

I could care less about numbers, those can be adjusted with time.

I have not rolled DPS since HW started because of the obnoxious bloat and complexity. I am so excited to play SMN. HOPEFULLY since SE is FINALLY removing the ridiculous button load we can get even more exciting fights since people will have time to look at them instead of their CD's or the enemy debuff bar.

[Wakkun]

I love the way Summoner looks. Simplified, less centered around balancing umpteen timers and more around dedicated moments of power.

I could care less about numbers, those can be adjusted with time.

I have not rolled DPS since HW started because of the obnoxious bloat and complexity. I am so excited to play SMN. HOPEFULLY since SE is FINALLY removing the ridiculous button load we can get even more exciting fights since people will have time to look at them instead of their CD's or the enemy debuff bar.

You're right, less SMN, more BLM way... Less DOTs, more moments of power... That's wonderful !
Change every class identity each TWO years SE, that's what people are asking...

[Sunako]

Aetherpact is actually pretty poor ability with correct translations. 5% buff for one party member 15 seconds. Uptime is 15/90 seconds so 16.6% time it is up. 16.6% x 5% = 0.83% dps increase? Probably little more in the opener with cooldowns, but overall pretty poor skill. If it would be buff for whole party it would be something.

[Len]

Why does Deathflare need a damage % falloff? It's already gated behind Aetherflow use and DWT ffs.

I hope I feel differently about Summoner when I reach level cap, because right now this is looking like a heap of trash.

[Dyvid]

Why does Deathflare need a damage % falloff? It's already gated behind Aetherflow use and DWT ffs.

I hope I feel differently about Summoner when I reach level cap, because right now this is looking like a heap of trash.

Because SE is nerfing speed runs instead of fixing the actually problems with dungeons and tomes. SMN had the best AoE so they got nerfed the hardest with the AoE crackdown.

[Len]

It must feel great being a Black Mage, the director of the goddamn game's favorite job.

..Especially when you compare how precisely tailored and beneficial the Stormblood improvements are for BLM and then you look at the stupid changes we get.

Summoner hasn't stopped feeling like an afterthought since it's implementation in 2.0.

[Greedalox]

It must feel great being a Black Mage, the director of the goddamn game's favorite job.

I know you're venting, but SMN has spent a larger portion of this games life as being better or more "meta" than BLM. You're taking blind shots at this point.

[Neela]

I know you're venting, but SMN has spent a larger portion of this games life as being better or more "meta" than BLM. You're taking blind shots at this point.

I personally won't be jealous if Blm becomes the magic monk of SB - Haven't played MnK in HW, most probably won't play Blm in SB. There will ever be the one cls which provides the strongest personal dmg. Why not Blm for SB? I'm sad about the aoe loss but happy bout Bahamut and the utility for caster-synergy. Blm & Rdm even healers can shine even more cause of us now that's great. After all it's about grp synergy and teamplay and not about who has the biggest ego to pose solo, isn't it? So happiness overlaps at least for me :3

[Vallhallix]

I personally won't be jealous if Blm becomes the magic monk of SB - Haven't played MnK in HW, most probably won't play Blm in SB.

Same here, again if it turns out that SMN does perform badly in comparison to the competition I'll just hop over to RDM/SAM until the inevitable buff. Nothing, not even super damage can make me go back to BLM, felt like too much of a chore in dungeons with heavy mechanics. That and well I like to be on the move. I find BLM to have the most boring playstyle in the game. I could never understand the BLM mains who would call SMN boring to play when playing BLM meant just being a turret for the duration of a fight. While SMN, perhaps more than any dps job (especially on consoles) required much shifting between your main loadout and the pet loadout to play optimally.

[Ashua]

This is why the developers should ignore everything the English forums speak about. Constant negativity and naysay before we even touch the product. You cannot know how things will pan out until you actually play it. If they are recalculating potency formulas or gameplay we know only text and a few playtests. Nothing truly constructive.