Summoner Thoughts

[Jibril]

The SMN job is showing how little play testing was done. One thing I noticed also is the distance of Bane is incredibly small and really often times not even worth casting. For the cost of our laughable burst we can spread our 3 main dots, but only if the other targets are literally piggy backing the main target.

To fix Bane I suggest increase spread range by 5 yards to allow for minimal enemy movement. Take the requirement of Aetherflow away and add a 15 second cooldown to the ability to allow for more uses of Fester giving the SMN more options to burst. Also take away the 15% chance to reset either Bio, Bio II or Miasma and give it to Fester since Fester actually costs a Cooldown.

I agree on your Ruin points also. I wouldnt expect Ruin II to do as much damage as Ruin I, but they both do the same damage but Ruin II cost just a little under double the cost of Ruin I.

[Jibril]

To fix this I suggest Ruin I have a 2.5 cast time and deal 150 unaspected damage and have Ruin II keep its instant cast and deal 90 unaspected damage and blind the enemy for 10 seconds with a 4 second cooldown.

The pet issue is almost crippling the SMN class. Locking the pet bar to our own is preventing many SMN from controller their pet effectively while trying to keep up with the other Damage Dealers. Enable the SMN to sic or heel the pet no matter what the SMN is doing themselves and also allow the SMN to turn off certain abilities that the pets have. AoE is not needed for every fight but yet no matter what all the summons have an aoe and use them off cooldown.

Increase Fester Damage 125 point per Bio, Bio II, and Miasma to compensate having to activate Aetherflow to use it and the time to apply all 3 dots. Increase the chance to reset Dot timers to 20% (taken from Bane and increased 5%).