wtf with all this hate to summoners?

[ArcheDragon]

It sorta feels like the SMN players here are just as bad as those that quit. All I keep seeing is "I'm great. SMN isn't bad, all of the other players are." I feel that it is a weaker class. It may have decent dps but it requires more work to get the dps rolling and other times you can't get it at all or at least not very effectively. Besides that you also have to control your pet or let the AI freak out which makes this class even harder.

I don't agree with people for leaving because of one but I'm not so biased towards my SMN to not see its shortcomings. It is (to a lesser degree) like the elementalist from GW2. It takes more skill to be good with it and that makes it a worse class overall because if you have to choose between consistent level of play from DRG or inconsistent skill level from SMN then a wise choice is to take the consistency. Again, I don't think that should be reason enough to be ***holes but I do see the point trying to be made.

And nobody likes to use bane because it sucks. It has the range of my pinky finger.

P.S. HamHam, you are no better than the people discussed in this thread when you make comments like your first one. "You aren't perfect? You find something difficult? My class is too good for you, go somewhere else."

[HamHam]

It sorta feels like the SMN players here are just as bad as those that quit. All I keep seeing is "I'm great. SMN isn't bad, all of the other players are." I feel that it is a weaker class. It may have decent dps but it requires more work to get the dps rolling and other times you can't get it at all or at least not very effectively. Besides that you also have to control your pet or let the AI freak out which makes this class even harder.

I don't agree with people for leaving because of one but I'm not so biased towards my SMN to not see its shortcomings. It is (to a lesser degree) like the elementalist from GW2. It takes more skill to be good with it and that makes it a worse class overall because if you have to choose between consistent level of play from DRG or inconsistent skill level from SMN then a wise choice is to take the consistency. Again, I don't think that should be reason enough to be ***holes but I do see the point trying to be made.

And nobody likes to use bane because it sucks. It has the range of my pinky finger.

P.S. HamHam, you are no better than the people discussed in this thread when you make comments like your first one. "You aren't perfect? You find something difficult? My class is too good for you, go somewhere else."

Oh look, friend. I'm not here to discuss that I'm better than anyone else. However, I will not going to stand by when people say SMN aren't good. When we know they are one of the highest DPS jobs in the game right now.

You want to bring a perspective about SMN, but from what I see you just became a SMN, so please play out the job and then come back and comment about whether it sucks or it's great.

Now, I don't appreciate when someone put words in my mouth, or misinterpret what I meant or not meant. At what moment did I say I'm better than anyone? I merely pointed out what I have experienced so far with SMN. Not my fault you didn't like it.

[RedAntares]

And nobody likes to use bane because it sucks. It has the range of my pinky finger.

I'm sorry but Bane is the most useful skill a summoner can have against adds on bosses and mobs, you just need to know when to use it since it can gain you a lot of hate if you use it wrong, also if you can't use bane because the mobs are too far from each other you can use Fester instead which it does amazing damage.

I'm not saying that SMN is the most amazing class out there but if played right it actually does quite a lot of damage and has a lot of versatile skills since you can AoE, Single Target Burst, DoT and even heal yourself to relief stress from the healer and I'm not even counting pet abilities.