Summoners Rejoice

[RaquelleAvarosa]

It's not weird that I sometimes cast Sustain on my Fairy to keep her from casting Embrace on herself...right?
It annoys me when she stops and casts Embrace on herself and doesn't fly to me in time for AoE spells.
Though it doesn't happen often, it's just annoying when it does happen. YAY to Sustain!

[Rawrz]

I main healer. My chocobo is a tank.

The issues go deeper than choosing to use sustain it seems.

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Also, I don't "Main" healer anymore, but when I did. it was SCH. All you have to do is check HW FFlogs to confirm that. :]

[FoxyAreku]

I'm wondering when smn lost sustain, people complained about it like the world is going to end. But now, when sustain is back, people say it's useless?

Different parties saying different things. When someone is content, they don't come here to comment.

Honestly, sustain is a pretty useless skill, never had a situation where I had to use it as things always die before titan's health is ever even worth looking at, and if you're doing some group titan tank strategy ala 2.0 well that's what you have healers for. So, /shrug.

The issues go deeper than choosing to use sustain it seems.

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Also, I don't "Main" healer anymore, but when I did. it was SCH. All you have to do is check HW FFlogs to confirm that. :]

I miss seeing your scholar posts. ;;

[Ametrine]

The issues go deeper than choosing to use sustain it seems.

What kind of logic is it though to make my chocobo into a healer when I primarily play as a healer? It's redundant if anything, though the birds have plateaued at this point in any form of tankiness, but that's an entirely different discussion. My mindset was tank bird, fairy healer, so I can just cleric stance away. Times have changed, and I don't feel like blowing gil on an onion.

But, on topic, what's the problem with giving the job a skill that was, at the best of times, a small safety net back? What is the issue with SMN being easier?

Why is lowering the skill ceiling an issue?

SE is going out of their way to make EVERY job easier, and well, Sustain helped. Players (apparently you never) used it and wanted it back. Just leave it off your hotbars if you see it as bloat.

The ones who missed it have their peace of mind and reassurance that SE actually listened to us.

[Youkulm]

I for one am happy it's back. It was a nice boost to my pets HP when they took damage ( it didn't do much but it did enough ). It's not like the healer is going to go out of the way to cure them over other party members. Plus overworld when my pet is tanking for me? Thank god it's coming back.

[kamenkuro]

Sustain super useful for solo content. Instances, etc. Makes life easier. I always suggested folks go SMN and SCH first because of easy it was to go from solo to party content. Without sustain that made it harder to suggest since titan pretty much became a limited buffer. With the enmity suppression we have as role skills it kind of helps a ton more, which may have been why they removed it. A summoner can destroy most fates with Titan, and if they can go ham without pulling it's perfect. Irregardless, I appreciate it coming back. Been maining WAR most stormblood because, while I have been gearing my SMN and SCH, I never could justify taking it over my WAR unless I was tired of tanking.

[RLofOBFL]

Sustain was bloat bc it's a dps loss. Most bosses and dungeons don't hurt your pet or deal lots of AoE anyway so there will be constant Medicas to heal it. MOST. Believe me there are some where I was infuriated I lost Sustain and my pet would die(Doma first boss). But outside of solo with Titan it's a bad skill. If you don't want your pet to get hit, move it away manually while casting. Casting Sustain eats a GCD, Any actual skilled SMN will tell you it's not a good skill in most cases. Some people would potentially use it a lot when their pet would take damage and just lose dps for nothing. So they got rid of it. Makes sense really.

I would prefer they had made it oGCD if they brought it back but what can you do.

[Aomine1992]

Sustain was the least of SMN issues lol but I'm not upset or happy it's back I rarely used it lol and there isn't a need for it outside of some solo content.....

[loreleidiangelo]

I seem to recall a few instances of raid/dungeon boss unavoidable damage chunking my Garuda more than it should have. If those issues were addressed, I wouldn't care about having Sustain back (and have said as much both here and on Reddit). The biggest reason I needed to heal my pet in things like expert roulette were cases of really bizarre inconsistent unavoidable damage output with relation to mobs and pets (trying to prevent more Titan-Egi solo tank Ramuh situations, I guess?).

[ShaolinMike]

I would trade Sustain away in favor of a Bahamut that stays friggin' put instead of following me around like a lost puppy.