Quote Originally Posted by Dahlinea View Post
We need the Trance phase to weave most of our oGCDs (Devotion, Egi Enkindle, Energy Drain, Egi Assaults, etc).

If during Bahamut they increase Ruin II potency to Ruin III potency or allow free Ruin IV casts (as it is with PvP SMN, like dinner said), then it will improve a bit that phase.
Merging DB with DWT would give us plenty of time for weaving ED/ES and Fester/Painflares. But it would break Devotion, Egi Assaults 1 and 2, and Enkindle. Which, in my opinion, is a good thing to have happen specifically because those abilities are some of the worst designed pieces of button bloat in the game. By forcing the dev's hand of merging DB with DWT, the devs will also be forced to fix the fact that SMN has 4 separate abilities that cannot be used during FBT, which is already a major design flaw to begin with considering how easily the cooldowns can get desynced from each other through no fault of the summoner's actions.

If we avoid this outright, and stick to DB being desynced, then there's another option. Upgrade Ruin from ruin 1 to ruin 2, to ruin 3, and finally ruin 4. As of ruin 2, ruin will no longer be a cast and SMN would "officially" be a castless caster outside of literally miasma, which could be turned castless easily without consequence, and Raise, which could also be made castless trollface.jpg.

By doing this, you abandon all pretenses of Summoner being a caster to begin with, and basically turn it into a caster doing its best impression of an rDPS. The oGCD problem won't be fixed, but it will be heavily mitigated and what little is left to smooth over would be relatively small compared to the hot mess that exists now.