@keeve: every thread I see you post, you fanatically defend SMN in its current form. May I ask you; are you hired by SE themselves? :P
Also SMN needs to be reworked:

-the pets look like something a part-time intern did during his break, not only are they just slighty bigger than vanity pets, but they look utter ****. (And don't give me that "they are essence" ****, no where does that dictate that they have to look pathetic.
-Our dmg takes way to long to catch up, in endgame raids, I'M always in the lower end when it comes to dmg, by a big margin. The AOE range on Bane and Enkindle is stupid small. My 300sec OMFGoodness ulti pet ability literally gets outshined by a Flare on a 2.5gcd.... Not only that, but the dmg is lower than Flare, even with Pet dmg buffs. I've experienced that ppl actually didn't want me in there raid grp, since my dmg was low. I don't even want to talk about my pet dmg.. its embarrassing.