(Un)Official Arcanist/Summmoner Feedback Thread

[Kalandros]

I think most people here speak only from the perspective of someone with full darklight and relic+1 (maybe).

Decked out in lv90 gear (I'm almost there!) is a whole different thing and most likely the point where everyone was tuned to - every Job in lv90 gear, will perform somewhat similar.

There are always situations where one is better than the other - Flare spam from BLM is incredibly high AoE DPS - probably more than what was intended.
All we can do is give them time to adjust and the only proper way to give feedback, is to do so by comparing equals, not apples and oranges.

The BLM that is slightly better geared than me, is doing more burst - of course, BLM are all about burst, and yet my sustained DPS is Very very high and gets stuff down just fine compared to the BLM. I don't have double Flare burst, but that doesn't mean I'm doing less DPS or less overall damage - not at all.

BLM requires basic math and repetition - if your mana pool is just right, you get the exact amount of spells through before emptying the bar with swift Flare and then switching to Ice to refill (or Bard tick to flare again) I find it very boring and mind-numbing. There is not much skill required here.

SMN requires a player to focus on sequencing the proper attacks and abilities - if you mess up, or have to move at a bad time in your rotation, you might fall behind, but a good player will account for those human errors and make up for it.

So yea, SMN requires more attention to be good at it - I think most here need to refine their rotations and their strategy but also to understand that we are not BLM with insane burst.
I don't think the SMN class needs to be reworked much - a few adjustments and maybe as some pointed out - pets could use improvement so that Garuda is not the default choice, that Contagion is way too good (: