(Un)Official Arcanist/Summmoner Feedback Thread

[T0rin]

Have a question regarding summoners. Do either parsers (Ex. FFXIV-APP and/or LogRep XIV) parse summoner DPS properly now? And if it does, how does our DPS stack up to a BLM.

Final question is what is SMN burst DPS like compared to BLM?

Thanks for any help regarding these questions! ^^

From what I have seen, both FFXIV-APP and Logrep2 will log your own DoT damage more or less correctly, when executed in a bubble. (like on a training dummy)

Logrep2 still seems to have a bug where it will miscalculate DoT damage.. sometimes, rather sporadically, I will see it report me having done some very excessive amount of DoT damage that I know for sure I didn't do.

It's kind of hard, if not impossible, to say exactly how accurate they are. From experience, the 'first person logging' of DoT damage seems to be more accurate than the third party logging of the same.. as in there is DoT damage shown to you, but not other people? Nobody knows _for sure_. But the general consensus is that you logging your own damage is more accurate than someone else logging it.

Our overall DPS stacks up well against BLM in a situation where you have a good mix of single target and AoE encounters. We out-dps them in ST, but lose out in AoE where there are more than 4 targets to engage at once. (because of the ramp up time needed for the second set of DoTs) But we beat them in AoE where there are 4 targets or less.

SMN burst DPS sucks. That's the one thing the class really lacks. To reach peak DPS, you have a ramp-up time where you set up your DoTs. BLM has a ramp-up time of casting Fire 3. Once we get going, and can start kicking out Festers during Ruin 2 GCD, we can get bursty. But we don't get from 0 to 60 very fast.

[Haterade]

From what I have seen, both FFXIV-APP and Logrep2 will log your own DoT damage more or less correctly, when executed in a bubble. (like on a training dummy)

Logrep2 still seems to have a bug where it will miscalculate DoT damage.. sometimes, rather sporadically, I will see it report me having done some very excessive amount of DoT damage that I know for sure I didn't do.

When did this happen? Last I heard it still won't log contagion, rs dots, or shadowflare... Even the dots they do track are 100% guess work as there is no dot damage in the combat log. Correct me if I'm wrong