I'd probably...
* Make Shiva's Crystal Blessing TP Bonus +1000 instead of +250.
* Give Garuda Hastega III, which caps magic haste.
* Make Avatar's Favor a 10 minute AoE buff that uses the gear / avatar you have out when you use it (no potency building or avatar restrictions).
There are a bunch of things I would like to do for the job (you could pretty safely double favor potencies), but I think we would be able to responsibly start using summoners as buffers or healers in a lot of content if they made these three tweaks.
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Just giving Siren march, would do it
Anything else would just be icing Lakshmi.Byrth said: » I'd probably... * Make Shiva's Crystal Blessing TP Bonus +1000 instead of +250. * Give Garuda Hastega III, which caps magic haste. * Make Avatar's Favor a 10 minute AoE buff that uses the gear / avatar you have out when you use it (no potency building or avatar restrictions). There are a bunch of things I would like to do for the job (you could pretty safely double favor potencies), but I think we would be able to responsibly start using summoners as buffers or healers in a lot of content if they made these three tweaks. - Buff crystal blessing considerably. Maybe full potency for 1handers and 2/3 or 1/2 potency for 2handers and hand2hand - Make Hastega II a separate buff so it stakes with Haste/II. Crystal blessing should add enough fire power to make it attractive enough to consider it at least for 1hander DDs for BRD or RDM slot. Making hastega it's own buff would open combos of SMN + BRD, RDM or BLU to cap party haste. From there you can still tinker with favor changes and add buff/debuff scaling with SMN skill to bring them past the 75 era but that's just icing compared to the two changes above. We need Bahamut and Phoenix.
Lakshmi.Buukki said: » I'd sooner use SMN over BST for the flex/TP reset/Healer slot in a unique Aminon comp. MNK pairs very well with SMN. Penance + Mewing Lullaby can cover TP reset all on its own. Other bonuses: Crystal Blessing, Warcry, Fleet Wind for travelling, Soothing Current for better Curaga IIIs w/ Raetic Rod +1, Shock Squall for stunlocking A/E C/G D, Healing Ruby/Whispering Wind, Hastega II to quickly re-apply Hastes if lost during H. Probably can do some Apogee > Mewing Lullaby x2 > AC > Mewing Lullaby > RD > Apogee > Mewing Lullaby x2 shenanigans to give a long window for burst DPS, maybe during MNK hundred fists. Good synergy with Chainspell, basically 2 minutes of low risk TP feeding on Aminon. Then Perfect Defense as an option as well, maybe during H or F for debuff immunity. AC can just invalidate any boss's TP moves entirely with Mew spam. A lot of useful opportunities for SMN. I know Papesse shared a ton of amazing use cases for SMN a bit ago in the Sortie thread. Sterk has already shown that 5man 9boss is doable meaning there's a slot for smn and Buukki did a nice write-up showing how synergetic the pair is. Papasse has also shared tons of stories over the years. You can either stay mad "I'm not top pick anymore" or go carve out your own path. GLHF (A boost to crystal blessing would be nice though) 1k constant TP bonus buff is absurd imo, warcry is already a huge buff for everyone involved and that's on a limited timer. wouldn't push it past 500. Allowing the job to cap its own magic haste on the other hand would be nice though don't think it really shifts its place in content all that much.
Genoxd said: » You obviously don't play SMN if you think the buffs I listed cannot be applied in sortie. I already stated V25 is out, sortie certainly isn't. Just going to say, you sound like an idiot at the moment which I feel is uncommon for you. Uh, where did i say they can't be applied? I said they wouldn't earn a spot in sortie. You wouldn't take a SMN over a BRD, COR, or GEO, with the buffs you listed. It still doesn't have gravity 2, so you ain't taking the RDM spot. It's not a tank, and it's not a DD. Sure, if there's already a setup you can 9boss with 5, it can take the 6th leech spot, but it can already do that today, no buffs required. Why do you need gravity? That's only for the DNC strat...
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