SMN...and SCH broken

[Gumbercules]

I am in a weird place with SMN cuz I started to level it cuz of all the complaining, and i actually ended up enjoying the job. In HW I just got it to 60 and shelved it cuz I did not enjoy its class mechanics and synergy. That said alot of the complaints seem to be about "muh deeps" and since I am used to bard, I just see SMN as a dps with good damage and good group synergy (using my bard as an example that would be great group synergy with ok damage) Ironically one of the "insults" ive seen chucked at MMO class design is the "need" to make every class pull the same numbers some devs (wow cough wow) opt for, and imo FF 14 atm is doing a good job of creating group synergies around a "support" structure vs DPS. Issue is i guess that everyone just wants to be "big $%#^" DPS ing it :P

The people trying to convince me "balance" was a mess directed me to the FFLOGs site and that gives a pretty good correlation of performance to "class identity" in actual situations. Quite frankly the balancing is freakishly good if you go by the logs. ( i strongly advice you "look" before reacting to seeing them and make sure you are seeing the actual numbers not the percentiles alone)