Thread: Caster Changes in 4.2 (RIP Casters)

Sounds fishy to me. Every ex roulette dungeon ever done that's had a rdm, blm, or sam in party always done way more than I every have in dps. Most Have ever seen once for a crit was 20k damage but a friend of mine that has way lower ilvl for his sam says he crits for 30+k so how is a summoners dps higher than a sams. Also have another friend that mains a blm and way out dps's me. Sounds like summoner hate to me. Summoner gets good boost and now everyone gets mad so to fix it they nerf it and i'm pretty sure last patch they nerfed it to. Sams doesn't deserve a boost anymore than another class does. Why should they even be compare them to a caster. There melee and not one that uses magic. They should only be compared to a monk, dragoon, or a ninja since there a close range dps and not a range dps class.

Originally Posted by hynaku

Sounds fishy to me.

It certainly does, but that's because you're thinking only of bursts. Summoner's strength lies in sustained damage, and the fact that they can constantly have at least 300 potency of damage per 3seconds, without any need to worry about serious clipping or losing potency or similar. However, on top of their sustained damage, they also have powerful oGCDs (Fester, Deathflare and Akh Morn) that can inflict serious damage.

And Samurai is compared to SMN simply because of SMN's overwhelming damage... just as it would be compared to Black Mage for that matter. But if you wanna compare SMN to BLM, SMN objectively outperforms BLM in terms of DPS, even if numbers "feel" low.