(Un)Official Arcanist/Summmoner Feedback Thread

[nimuniverse]

Why are you guys comparing apples and oranges? In dungeons, do you see BLM casting AoEs unless adds are weak that 2-3 AoE kill them. Not the case for 95% of dungeons mobs. Yes, BLM and other dps have melting face big number skill (we also do but require DoTs and Fester availability) but we are the only one that can do AoE DoT on all mobs when all other classes are single targeting. See my other thread SMN - knowing your class. It be nice to have parser working properly for DoT, that way we can tally SMN+pet damage with the rest at the end of the dungeon. I maintain that since we constantly do AoE DoT, we be the top damage dealer at the end of the dungeon, unless you prove me otherwise.
But yes, as other have mentioned in this thread, would be nice to have summon's uber ability be better.

[XenabelleS]

I've found that without Titan (ie SMN 30-35), it's better to solo as ACN for both the extra dot frontloaded dot in Aero. In fates, I only get kill experience on mobs I hit first if I only have bio that can be applied while I'm kiting the mobs I got threat on that topaz does not pick up.

Also I would like Virus to be different. A 10 second debuff on a 90 second cooldown isn't much use imo. I have yet to encounter a mob that has a period of higher damage to save this for. Either make it longer or reduce the cooldown.

I do like Bane's dot spread although it's only really useful in dungeons and sometimes FATES though once more, things in FATES tend to die too quickly to get me credit.