Other changes to consider for summoner:
  • Consider letting Miasma or Bio add Ruination.
  • Consider deleting ruination outright.
  • Either merge aetherflow stack generation with the trances directly, or delete aetherflow as a mechanic outright, and just make us as players spend it during trances. People won't care about downtime as much if the downtime doesn't feel like trash to actually execute. The goal is to mitigate gimmicky crap, which the downtime is full of between Aetherflow stacks and EA.
  • Merge Demi-Bahamut into DWT. Make Deathflare automatically cast when casting DWT innately on entering the trance, and just merge DB's summon animation into DWT's animation to make everything nice and neat.
  • If Aetherflow as a mechanic is being removed, consider merging Fester and Painflare into DWT as replaces for ruin 3/ruin 2+4.
  • Drop devotion to a 2m cooldown or raise it to some multiple of 120s, having it come off cooldown during FBT when you cannot use it is dumb.

The class needs help, but the biggest problems, by far, are caused by the class not having enough instants to comfortably use every single oGCD that it has, and it's too heavily impacted by boss mechanics. Ruination is also a grating issue but it's not nearly as bad as just how awful the downtime parts of the class are to actually run.