Smn Rework Suggestions After LL

[Miemi]

SMN main here, I'm not a hardcore player but I very much enjoy endgame content (about to clear TEA as SMN) and find optimization interesting and fun, so what I'm gonna say will be mostly negative... I'll be judging from what they showed us in the LL and analysis from the community.

They pretty much took the resource management aspect of SMN and threw it out of the window. No more dots managment. No more Ruin IV stacks management. No more movement management. No more CDs/oGCDs management. Oh yeah they kept aetherflow, the worst thing SMN had in its kit.

If you remove the fluff, this is the amount of skills 6.0 has, and it's pretty much all instant GCDs:


And don't tell me "You get different spells once you summon/use primals." In the end you're still pressing the same button with a different animation. And STILL, they're not even oGCDs. They reduced the job to a 1-2GCD rotation, with plenty of weave space but no oGCDs to weave in.

Having more conscious options and choices you need to make in a rotation is more objectively interesting than not having those decisions. And 6.0 SMN doesn't have those choices. The direction the job is taking thematically is good, but it feels half-finished, underdeveloped. Or like a Physical DPS with half the spells in Caster gear.

6.0 SMN will have the complexity and numbers of spells of a lvl 50 job. From fairly complex and rewarding job, to well, braindead. Beginners and casual players will love it, SMN mains/endgame enthusiasts already don't like it.

In 6.0 me and other SMN mains won't be able to play the job we loved anymore. It won't have the same depth and complexity it currently has. It's just depressing. If I wanted to play a simpler job, I wouldn't main or enjoy SMN.

This is not about not having dots anymore, this is not about pet AI, this is not about "better or worse." This is about replacing a job with something completely different, and on top of that it feels unfinished...