Quote Originally Posted by MrJPtheAssassin View Post
Great read and I completely agree with you on all fronts. I have been a smn main since I started doing savage back in SB on O5S. I always felt smn should be in the middle of the two other casters and that feeling hasn't changed even with the rework. I hope SE hears us out and slightly buff and fixes some of the issues with the new smn. I, for one, am in the camp of sacrificing some of our mobility to gain some power into our kit. I want to feel more like a caster and never ask for all this mobility we have now. Anyway wonderful write-up! Thank you for making this post.
I'm glad to see I'm not alone who think mobility should be the price we pay for more power. When it comes to buff restrictions, we can work around that caveat with spell speed. That's what I fundamentally like from Summoner as a meta player.

Also, to add a bit more to the current issue of why Red Mage is the ultimate caster...



This is the clears from P4S second boss. If SMN had more power than RDM, then they would have a bigger representation. Black Mage is currently not being represented because the only ones who cleared also had a second caster. I do think even with more power, RDM would be the preferred choice.

I honestly believe Endwalker is the most unbalanced expansion they've came up. ARR was really unbalanced but the game had just released so they get the bypass. But you can clearly see some jobs don't exist in the raid scene because they don't compete well with other jobs of the same category.