Submitted by Alerith on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 17:52.
The summoner job has too often been called into parties for the sake of Main Healing. I dont find this right. The summoner is meant to do just as its name implies and summon. Too many times, a SMN/WHM is asked to be a healer rather than the summoner they chose to be. Im not saying a SMN shouldnt heal, Im saying that it should be a SUPPORT healer at the most. The main job of a SMN is to use their MP for summoning their avatars and their avatars abilites.
But I feel the job is slightly broken. (Slightly may be an understatment.) Some fixes to the job may include:
Lower Blood Pact recast time
Remove the MP drain by just having your avatar out.
Increase avatar accuracy.
Give the SMN some melee or magical abilites to fight with.
The MP drain is just a pointless idea. The avatar should have a timer, but not your MP. The BP are good, but take too long to recharge before their next use. The avatar accuracy is too bad to be a good DD on its own, and the SMN usually sits around for the minute between BP.
It was a job with good intentions, but for too many people became "White Mage II". I feel SMNs all over should stop giving in to the parties that want main healers and not summoners. Summoners were meant to summon and fight. Not be the next "Substitute White Mage".
Am I right or do you all feel Like im being Ignorant? Be honest. (But not brutal ^^)
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woot....
ty for posting this lol....my god out of the many hours of partying i get like maybe an hour or 2 a month just smn'ing, the rest healing.
but about some of ur ideas...dont get mad at me lol
af/austere lower bp timeing.. but very costly unless u can do it on ur own
mp drain lessens when u get the elemental staves and equip correctly for each appropriate avatar. also carby mitts r always good
accuracy i think goes up when u get af, and i think u can merit it when u get to 75 too
as for magic abilities, depends on the sub u do. with blm sub technically u can get three mb if theres a blm in pt; blm's mb, avatars mb, and urs but dmg wont be good but they should definitly add more abilities for smn. lvlin ur staff helps too
they definitly need to add something so that smn is not always the main healer. who knows maybe even making whm have more str and dex so they will be lvl'd more idk.well thats my view on it lol ( i think that was my biggest post too lol)
ya
staffs are good investments for mages in general. I think there are some other gear that can reduce the cost of using the avatars. Also your sum skill might be effecting the avatars accuracy too, since they changed its role. I'd personaly recommend that any mage job lvl cooking to 40 so they can always have refresh.
WHM
I play WHM and SMN so being asked to be healer does not bother me as SMN/WHM.
Personally, as someone playing SMN and WHM, the job I felt a month ago needed the most attention (needed nice attention) was Paladin. And now, that the expansion is out, the job I feel needs the most nice attention is probably Puppetmaster.