Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Exploring Patch 4.0)

Summoner was really nice to play back to Heavensward, we had a nice burst, we didn't have to care about pet responsibilities (old contagion), we had a nice and solid rotation and we had our beloved aoe.
Stormblood came and we got hit really hard:
-Bane ridiculous nerf.
-Ruin 3 nerf.
-Deathflare damage falloff.
-Lost of a 3rd DoT.
-Lost of Spur.
-Lost of Sustain.
-Locking us from stuff we used to be free (Aethertrail and Aetherflow).
Also was said that SB would make the jobs easier to play and less punishing.
SMN now requires an INSANE player skill to maximize their dps. We gotta align Contagion, (which please, fix the pet responsibilities, we are totally depending on Contagion now for out maximum dps) Tri-Disaster and Aetherflow for Summon Bahamut.
The job is now one of the hardest jobs to play. Also the punishment is INSANE. ex: We die just before we are about to summon Bahamut, and what about Aethertrail and Aetherflow being on the same gauge? Fester is missed or Boss/mob moved when we just casted Bane we got 1 minute penalty because of that.
Sustain is now gone and we can't heal our pets anymore, we gotta ask for the healers to heal it and now is practically impossible to do solo content as smn.
What about Ruin IV? We SUMMONERS depending on RNG to have our old Ruin III potency, that's just the old Ruin III with a different animation.
What about Devotion? Pls make it to we choose the target or make it an AoE because now it's really an useless skill.
Anyways SMN need some love, SMN needs to be easier and less punishing.
Is there any plans for SMN changes on the next patches? Is there any plans to fix pet responsibilities? (Since our dps rotation is based on a perfect timing of contagion) Because SMN was an amazing and fun job to play on heavensward and it's no more.