Shadowbringer: Summoner Changes Discussion

[Taranok]

It's definitely a very busy job now. Summon II still needs some crowd control and still would like to see Flaming Crush changed.

As far as I can tell, the class is actually the busiest or near-busiest job in the game. I haven't done enough of the new Machinist to know for sure, and obviously Dancer is right out, but I'm tunnel visoning hard just trying to keep on top of the 50 billion cooldowns this class has to constantly fire off.

And I've come to find that the queue limit appears to just be a hard 2, because even if I just start with EAs, I've seen EAs frequently get dropped when I back to back cast them. Having Enkindle and Devotion under the same system exacerbates the issue, the pet is just flat out not fast enough for how quickly SMN needs to be able to pump out these oGCDs.

I actually am struggling to figure out how the devs didn't notice these issues. Every individual change is great, but the class as a whole basically is trying to play like a Bard on steroids but it's a caster and it's breaking at the seams.