How I would Rework SMN

[dinnertime]

My problems with this...A lot.

The GCDs. Personally I see SMN as the caster that barely does any casting, which is true because most of its skills and damage come from oGCDs. Literally our only (relevant) casted spells are Ruin III and Miasma III, Ruin III being only its spam-able filler spell because it somewhat needs to cast things as a caster. Adding more GCDs would honestly just mess with the job identity, plus SMN already has mobility problems.

The pets. I really don't like the idea where they do attacks in a sequence by themselves. Even though I hate Egi Assault, I still like that I can control my summons. Also the Egi Assault rework really doesn't fix the problem, since they're still a frequent 30s for both but now it's not a oGCD so it's more annoying to manage.

Then there's Aetherpact/Devotion. You basically just made it worse because it's now a cooldown on top of another cooldown now that the pets aren't permanent. It'll make it even more of a hassle to time it nicely.

[ReiMakoto]

I can agree that moving it to a gcd might not be to someones tastes, but having them as a gcd does not make them more annoying, as they would just be replacing a ruin 3 in the rotation. I wouldnt say it ruins the identity either as it used to have more gcds in previous expacs and that didnt ruin smns identity

Again the control thing is purely subjective, I currently dont really feel in control of them, because egi assualt just feels like a ruin 4 proc button. So i prioritised the assaults being impactful over "in control", plus it brings them in line more with how summons worked in classic ff.

I dont understand your final complaint, they should line up perfectly fine. As a gnb main lining up ogcds for your timered gcds isnt an issue ever, and with egi assualt 1 and 2 being charged and summon support being a dps loss otherwise, it seems like a relatively easy and painless thing to track. Only thing i would say is maybe just have devotion summon titan to do the ability in this case would work fine