Smn Rework Suggestions After LL

[Cebo]

Aesthetically and thematically, the changes look great.

Mechanically, I am fearing the worst about what's going to happen to the job that I've mained and prog'd with since ARR.

Every expansion, there seems to be even less pet management, which is the same complaint SCH's had in ShB. Long gone are the days of lining up Contagion with your raid buffs/debuffs. It's like they heard our complaints about how janky pet actions were, and instead of improving them, they just started gutting them. The job trailer and gameplay video we saw makes it seem like Carbuncle is now going to be nothing more than a perma-Robot Queen turret, with very little interaction between SMN and pet.

And I get DoT's were not everyone's cup of tea, but a lot of players who DID main SMN played it because we enjoyed DoT management. Otherwise we would've played another job. Yeah, ShB DoT management became braindead easy with all the Tri-disaster resets, but it was still another resource we had to track and monitor to maintain 100% uptime. They also added subtle nuances/changes to our gameplay whenever we dealt with boss phase transitions or dual/triple-target adds that we could DoT up.

Now from the looks of it, this class is just going to faceroll over its 5-button rotation on a single target, and appears much less busy than in the past. I hope I'm wrong, but I went from excited by the Job trailer, to totally deflated once Yoshi-P started going into detail on the SMN changes.