Written summoner Guide

[Axxion]

Hello all ,

Do hope all is well. I wanted to ask if anyone can point me in the direction of finding a written guide for the summoner.

[NosamKin]

smn_resources on the Balance Discord has much info.

Some of it:

5.0 Endgame Beginner's Guide by Elevation Xx and Eydis Darkbane
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...ebMAI75pEdkBdc

Tsundere Imouto's Stopgap Guide
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...AWaLeIi_5q7Wig

Summoner 2 minute Cycle:
https://elevation.s-ul.eu/1X8CeZ0V

[Axxion]

Thank you much

[Hasrat]

Personally, would enjoy seeing guides that don't just focus entirely on end game. I know it's kinda asking a lot, since most wouldn't go to the trouble of leveling again to have a good grasp of what's available at various levels. But man. Leveling from 60 to 70 recently felt awful, not really understanding how some bits were supposed to fit together.

[dinnertime]

Personally, would enjoy seeing guides that don't just focus entirely on end game. I know it's kinda asking a lot, since most wouldn't go to the trouble of leveling again to have a good grasp of what's available at various levels. But man. Leveling from 60 to 70 recently felt awful, not really understanding how some bits were supposed to fit together.

Honestly these guides are fine for lower level SMNs because you basically do the same thing except you can't access either Dreadwyrm Trance (pre-58), Bahamut Phase (pre-70) or the Phoenix Phase (pre-72) depending on your level.

[Hasrat]

In fairness, at least in this situation, you are correct. I do attribute my recent frustrations with the chaos that is current SMN. I sorta get the gist of the rotation foundation. Keep DoTs up, use basically any oGCDs that aren't on cooldown. Maybe it's just the prevalence of double-weaves that really bug me. Maybe it's just that I'm not really a SMN main, and just want to understand it more than optimize it. Maybe it's just not my style. Maybe I just need to spend more time with it. Dunno.

[dinnertime]

I think the double-weaves are a lot worse now so it's pretty unfortunate that you tried out SMN in its current state. It was a lot simpler and steady back then and honestly as a SMN main since 2.x, the amount of double-weaving and sometimes triple-weaving I have to do now is tiring.
They are planning on making the job less busy (probably with the ogcds) so I hope that makes the job more welcoming to play for people, but yeah you might want to spend more time with it because I was in the same boat back at ShB launch, but I'm used to it now (but it's still a struggle).