I personally am extremely disappointed with the ew smn changes. I just leveled my smn to 80 and it feels I leveled the wrong job.

Jokingly announcing that there will be three new jobs in ew effectively announcing the end of current summoner was not funny to me. As I spend a lot of time perfecting the rotation and learning proper pet management.

I personally choose smn as it had a complicated busy rotation with added depth in keeping up dots and manage pets. I loved especially in dungeons run to apply the dots bane and pets just at the right time while the tank wall to wall pulled the mobs.

The point is that I choose this job because of the unique actions and now they all get removed and I am left with a completely different job, it did not help that the summoner demo showed a extremely simplified rotation also which didn’t look that interesting or challenging.

It’s now a flashy mage with fun graphics spell effects which add nothing mechanics wise and I really could care less about. Most people don’t even have full spells effects enabled so never will see them anyway.

Guess I now have to decide if I try to grind a BLM to 80 in 2 months before ew As the blm looks way more interesting now then ew-smn or just stick with the newly added job ew-smn.