(Un)Official Arcanist/Summmoner Feedback Thread

[Atamis]

＠Tertatos


The problem is every ranged DPS class a reliable area attack that hits all targets except summoner.

Black Mage - Blizzard II, Fire II, Flare
Bard - Quick Knock (although its a cone), Rain of Death, Wide Volley
Summoner - .....

Shadowflare?... Hits all targets plus reliably slows?...

[Baliso]

I am currently on Goblin server and play a summoner main. Bane has always had an issue with the tooltip. I can see a cap of five mobs being reasonable. But in comparison to black mages , summoner's aoe is not evenly remotely comparible in end-game equal gear. It was quite strong in mid gear range (and comparable) ie. AK type instance. But with almost full ilvl 90 gear, comparing the aoe dmg of a black mage in similar gear to myself , its not even close; not to mention if I didn't have a bard i'd be out of mana every fight.

[Baliso]

As a summoner you actually have to plan your mana conservation throughout the entire phase of every fight in a instance like coil. The BLM's can go willy nilly. Enough about bane though. Though I'd love to have it fixed, as well as pets benefitting from stats and potions. My real issue right now, you have a DoT based class, with a complicated rotation (in comparison to something like blm, dragoon, etc.) and you make it way harder by letting DoT abilities refreshed with sub 5 seconds remaining bug out and not refresh the duration of the dot. I cant tell you how many times I've gone to reload my bio 2 or miasma and it not take effect because of this. It should have been fixed before we even got to launch; let alone still being an issue months later. I was the first lvl 50 on my server (Goblin) and have been dealing with these issues with summoner since day one.
Cheers,

Baliso

[Baliso]

I am glad to see that after months someone is finally addressing (one) of the issues; however, guess which set of gear i'm starting to use my myth on now. that's right. BLM. because you're removing my choice of caster class as a end-game maximize.

[Jarinolde]

My real issue right now, you have a DoT based class, with a complicated rotation (in comparison to something like blm, dragoon, etc.) and you make it way harder by letting DoT abilities refreshed with sub 5 seconds remaining bug out and not refresh the duration of the dot. I cant tell you how many times I've gone to reload my bio 2 or miasma and it not take effect because of this. It should have been fixed before we even got to launch; let alone still being an issue months later. I was the first lvl 50 on my server (Goblin) and have been dealing with these issues with summoner since day one.
Cheers,

Baliso

There is no issue with refreshing DoTs that are close to expiring, the issue you are experiencing is trying to refresh a DoT that was buffed with an unbuffed version. The game is designed so you cannot override buffs or debuffs with less powerful versions of them.

[Silverthorn]

About Bane, being a devil advocate, SE prolly wanted us, the summoner, to have control of what got bane'd and therefore gave it a tiny AoE range.. Granted doesn't work in practice but still I see where they are comming from. This thread sounds more of a "please give us summys a reliable Aoe"... Which in turn is diffrent from fixing bane.

Consider these options.
A. They could "fix" bane and the 3 dots to work properly, aka remove the bug's etc. And inaddition remove say the 15% reset dot chance to a flat increase dots ticking by 15 seconds.. This would make it FAR more consistent.

B. As for a reliable aoe.... Consider Tri disaster getting a revamp...perhaps instant cast, or keep same horrific cast time but monumentally increase its potency... Or a mix of the two; 1 sec cast time potency upped by 50 or what not..

These two fix our aoe issue of reduced targetting..and yet keep the "idea" of bane being a tight band/control aoe.

[Silverthorn]

Baliso

OMG 1000 characters..really..can't even do a decent quote....


YAY a summy who KNOWS how to play our class....soo VERY few on the server in which i reside.. Figured it was jsut me and lag with the bio bio2 and miasma 1 refresh thingy... irritating and at times i waste a fester because the previous cast didn't "take".....Alas I have to wait till all dots run out if i want to be sure and mana is tight.