Having a discussion with some players in the FC regarding mages, they’re arguing that RDM is the leader of the pack by a long shot, with BLM behind RDM, and SMN trailing because of “pet issues” and SMN isn’t really neccisary if you have BLM or RDM.

In fact, the comment they said was:
“SMN has sort of pet issues. It’s a bunch of micromanaging pet stuff with not a ton of payoff. Demi-Bahamut is fun but it takes 10 years t get there. Strongest caster is still RDM with BLM being a tight second, and SMN needing some tweaks and fixes before it competes with the other mages.”

And in response to me saying that in a prolonged fight, I think SMN has a higher potential, he said “I’d like to see the logs that support that.”

He very well may be right, but I don’t want him to be, as SMN is really to only DoT class we have, and I sooo badly want it to be good! (EQ2 Warlock main from back in the day..)

Are SMN no longer king?