Quote Originally Posted by Exterium View Post
I don't talk about what I think, I talk about the data we have at this point, and SMN, besides what this forums seems to think, hits way harder than BRD, at the same lvl as a BLM and harder than a RDM.
And as far as I've seen, this just isn't true. I've been in parties, I've seen people's dps. I have been in. Nothing Summoner has can hit for 25k and I did stone sky sea over and over and over until I got an ahk morn direct hit crit under the effect of contagion that boosts it's damage. I also tweaked my smn rotation right around 30 times and yet when I encounter a bard, they do massively more dps.


Smn and Bard dots work almost identical, except they are reversed. Bard hard casts dots then keeps them up. Summoner doesn't have to hard cast their dots until they run out three times. The difference? Bard get's 120 potency when they first cast them on both dots, then 100 potency when they need to refresh them. Summoner's dot's don't get any potency added when we refresh them unless we hard cast Miasma 3.