those guys present all those changes like they're the godsent saviors who will bring into the game with their ideas finally the "true summoner"
Haha I kinda do that, though just because making stuff up is fun, that’s all. There’s another thread for that kinda nonsense now though. ^^

I don’t have many issues with SMN as it is now, the few things I can think of are in the 1st post though most of the things listed there don’t bother me. The things that do: Aetherflow being separated from trance (personal preference, I like when things work together, gives it all more meaning), Devotion timing with FBT (not a big deal just annoying), speaking of which DWT timing as well (a slight delay and it’s just a little too short) and less flexibility with cds (still have some though). Our healing spells are kinda annoying because they don’t really do anything, just seems like a trap for players who don’t know better. I still spam Physik when there’s nothing to attack in raids though lol.

But mainly Ruin scaling with dots irks me. Damage over time effects are situational, you don’t want to use them on things that aren’t going to live long enough for them to matter, and if they are going to live long enough it’s a given we should use them, so why punish us further for not using them? All it does is make it harder to kill low health adds that need to die quickly.

Egis not feeling impactful, that’s part numbers and part design. They could be better for sure but gameplay wouldn’t change much if at all to buff them and well if they were buffed it would make playing a SMN that much more brain dead because it’s passive damage and that’s no good either. So barring some kind of overhaul which isn’t gonna happen, they’re fine. I would like to feel less bad about pulling out Titan for a shield in the middle of a fight but hey healers need something to do amirite.

Lower levels feel pretty bad, I try not to play SMN in any scaled down dungeon if I can help it. Really would like to see that improved. Oftentimes things die so fast I don’t have time to apply dots, I don’t have Tri-Disaster, I don’t have any cds, all I have is a filler spell that scales with dots I don’t have time to cast and get any real benefit from. And Energy Drain + Fester which is the only saving grace. Bleh.

Other than that I’m cool with everything. Some bigger numbers might be nice but who doesn’t want those

There is no need to ask for more trance based play since that's where the job is heading anyways and i agree it is fun and great gameplay.
Duuuuude you can tell the future?? ;P But yeah it’s pretty great.