Quote Originally Posted by Sunako View Post
Well summoner damage buffs are pretty smalls. Devotion is overall dps loss if it used for healer that not even do the damage because you have to sacrifice your pet dps using devotion. Devotion delay your wind blade attack by 2 second that is like 14 dps loss from yourself. If you can use it for dps class that do steadily 4k dps that boost the person damage by 33.33 dps over 90 seconds. So average what you gain from devotion is around 20 overall dps. SMN have contagion as well, but majority of setups favor physical damage only. If double caster would be viable SMN would boost other caster around 100 dps, but because blm is so far behind from samurai it is not worth run with double caster. Using radiant shield boost physical damage, but you lose around same amount damage from contagion yourself than what radiant shield bring for the party.
Okay, honest question now. Have you tried using Ifrit and are you include the actual damage radiant shield does to your own dps? When I did V.1 I found RS damage comparable to Shadow Flare so it's not a huge boost but it's there along with the 2% physical damage debuff for 24s and the best chance off devotion hitting front line dps jobs; though it's really just hit and miss still.