Developers Poor Attitude to Summoner

[Dyvid]

- Nobody asked for more Ruin and less DoT management. That was SE's idea to simplify the job

Okay, then explain to the community why everyone in 3.0 used Garuda over Ifrit? Their DPS was the same so what made Garuda more prized?

- I can't speak to the rationale for the hugely, big Bahamut as I've never seen those requests. I can say being around for about 2 years I don't recall seeing a request for bigger egi's but I also wasn't historically a big reader of the forums.

You must not have been reading the DPS boards then because it's been a complaint since SMN came out.

- There aren't any complaints about getting the Devotion buff. It is the half assed implementation based on one target's proximity to our pet. It is obvious someone decided they needed something for utility as an afterthought.

There are but it's drowned out by complaints about SMN damage and design. Actually feedback is being lost in the crowd.

It's not just SE. Half the posts in this thread are people with no clue about SMN coming in and dismissing any arguments about the job's current state. A lot of people seem to have convinced themselves that SMNs have no legitimate reason to complain about anything because they've been forced to fight tooth and nail to get any attention from the devs since 2.0.

Oh there is definitely reason for legit complaints, as long as legitimate. Right now based on parser and flogs SMN is the lost dps caster but doesn't account for buffs/debuffs as smn damage and is ignored by those sources. People are using Garuda because the magic debuff gives them a visible damage increase, it's something tangible were as things like Radiant Shields and Devotion make it harder to tell if the damage decrease is worth the buffs.