I love SMN

[Awarewolf]

I’d give the three base summons a long cast time, like old school FF Summoners typically had, but make them hit harder to compensate. The animation to summon them should be very elaborate too. I want to see the book floating in front of us with the pages flipping on their own, some crazy seal spinning beneath our feet, etc.

Only other thing I want is the second Ifrit ground slam to propel us backward.

[DES_VII]

So far I love SMN play even if its easier doesn't mean it should be behind bard, I feel it should be with or right below RDM. It needs a slight buff. Either way you can play any job, But for buffs sake nin, smn, paladin need a bit of a buff. The fact that bard as physical range is at range of smn and rdm has more utility compared to smn as a caster. smn needs minor buffs. But if "easy" is the sake of lower dps, then smn should be below rdm. But rdm brings so much to the table compared utility wise and is doing insane dps atm. While smn doesn't and is casting. Just needs slight buffs on smn.

But we only have data from trials look at how many ppl are parsing RPR as of now 110,000 or so parsed RPR. In the begining of trials it was RDM + SMN = Number of RPR Parses.

[Atomos]

So much better than past smn! loving it so much!

[Rolder50]

Fun at first, gets awfully repetitive and boring after a few dungeons at max level

[White_Wolf_X]

Fun at first, gets awfully repetitive and boring after a few dungeons at max level

To be fair, most jobs do that.

[ServantNaoya]

To be fair, most jobs do that.

Not at all. Most jobs remain very fresh to me at max level. And while I haven't played max level SMN yet, it's mostly because I can barely bring myself to play it from how repetitive and boring it is even at level 80.

[Raikai]

One thing I wished for the SMN rework was a huge primal being used instead of the LB3 they have. I could imagine Leviathan flooding the whole place.

[Burningskull]

Some tweaks I would like to see for the current SMN kit.

Remove the cast time on Garuda's Astral Flow ability. Have it be powered up by how many Gemshine abilities you use before it.

Have Ifrit's Astral Flow abilities cause it's Gemshine ability to be instant cast. So you would Astral Flow > Gemshine Astral Flow Gemshine. Kind of the reverse of Titan.

Have your Aetherflow do a little bit of damage when you use it. Maybe 100 potency or 50.

Have Carby attack when you attack or attack when he comes back to the field. Also make him instant cast.

[Warlyx]

garuda astral should be an aoe dot instaed of ground aoe , some kind of bleeding effect

carby attacks yes please , remove the carby req from shield / buff