Quote Originally Posted by rewd View Post
Enjoy the new SMN but don't spread nonsense about the old iteration. Roughly 70% of your damage came from Ruin spells and your pets. Bio, Miasma and Tri-Disaster only accounted for roughly 15% of your total damage output.
Ok, regardless, 2.0 summoner was a poison DoT mage with the summons feeling tacked on.

Each expansion after started leaning more heavily on the summoning aspect, but they kept adding more and more clunk with the different systems not really being connected. The summoning always felt like a secondary part of the job. There aren’t many jobs in the final fantasy series as iconic outside of jobs like white mage, black mage, paladin and dragoon.

That being said, the expansion stripped away most of the original class/job, while not adding enough to make it a unique job.