Thoughts on the removal of skills

[dinnertime]

Summoner's potency changes (or rather nerfs) with DoTs, Ruin etc. for the recent updates were mostly to balance them with its newer kits like the Demi summons and the new Egi attacks. They probably decided to adjust those particular assets of Summoner because they must've realized how unpopular they are, which I agree with. I don't like DoTs or spamming Ruin either.

Summoner hasn't been weak at all in endgame (if we don't include 5.0 SMN). Over the years, it has always outshined Black Mage and Red Mage, or practically every other DPS since mid-Heavensward. At early levels that's a different story due to these adjustments and it's apparent during Stormblood and somewhat Shadowbringers. I dislike playing Summoner on a lower level because it felt incredibly weak without Trance or Demi summons which is where most of its damage came from. Though, they alleviated that a bit by making Egi Assaults hit hard. I wish in the next update they design it to be more cohesive so they don't have to juggle potencies around for each gimmick it has, and to not make it feel punishing to play at lower levels.

Also? 4.1 Summoner is the best Summoner.

[Khalithar]

I'm all for cutting down hot bar bloat even if that means reducing the number of combos/cooldowns we get and balancing around it.

Plus I'd honestly prefer to see our weapon skills upgraded to new attacks. My paladin is level 80, I would love nothing more than having two new abilities to replace fast blade and riot blade which I've been spamming for ages.

[grinkdaboy]

be neat if they recycled all of the job actions and put them into a new one

[Saix027]

I find it weird that they remove fun skills like eye for an eye, stone skin, the caster magic resistance up buff(nice for tank busters), granted they were not super strong but I liked using then, and instead of those we get sleep..
When do we ever need to use sleep?
I still miss bane on Scholar :/

Even better, Fluid Aura, just why, overall most Role Skills or CC skills, 90% of the time they not work anymore on most content.