Quote Originally Posted by Kurando View Post
Hmm the MP pool hasn't really changed that much for SMN though. Yes Ruin III is no longer an MP dump but even back then effective SMNs could DPS and rez without being picked punished too much because they had Aetherflow and Energy Drain as additional MP recovery. These days even Lucid Dreaming isn't always necessary, same goes with SCH, they both can have very effective MP management in the right hands.

SCH had recent unintended effects from summon spells?
Before patch 4.1 SMN and SCH were MP pits, SMN for example relied on massive Ruin III spam (10% of your MP each spell back then) to do decent DPS. Even the best complained about that. Managed, but complained.
So if you had no MP issues back then without lucid, while raising and everything, sorry to break it to you but you weren't doing very well DPS wise...

Having to raise someone WAS a pain, lucid was like a messiah.

Nowadays I agree you barely even see MPs go down, and don't even need lucid except if you have to mass raise RDM style (well, slower of course)

Back to physick : with BLM actual condition, I don't think further utility to SMN would help in anyway, nor is it needed or even wanted. And before anyone mentions solo content : ffs it's a MMO not a regular FF.