I’m sure this is going to go over well.
The Summoner Guide I dislike:
https://www.akhmorning.com/jobs/smn/
The Summoner Guide I like:
https://www.akhmorning.com/jobs/smn/
The images I also stole:
https://www.akhmorning.com/jobs/smn/
Why did you teach me pain?
https://www.akhmorning.com/jobs/smn/
Class Guide Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOA2RG8q_mrkqApuZDESbhEdLGKGz4Hc6
My Discord Server: https://discord.gg/qhBGS9zvCX
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro Intro
0:36 – Intro
2:03 – I hate and love summoner guides
3:26 – You’re A Pet
3:58 – Your Pets
5:22 – Self Promotion Speed Run
5:30 – The Water Cycle
6:46 – One of Many Openers
9:04 – The first part of that opener
11:26 – Dreadwrym Trance
12:13 – Bahamut
13:52 – Filler
14:23 – Phoenix
17:43 – Eternal Punishment
19:43 – Philler
20:38 – Almond
21:31 – Cooldowns
22:07 – Other Utility
23:33 – Area of Effect Damage Skills. Please Use them I beg you.
24:32 – Dreadwrym Trance but slightly cooler
25:43 – Mobility between casters
26:30 – Conclusion
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This video gave me both life and anxiety…and I play summoner.
As SMN main since starting the FFXIV about a year before SB launched, I felt happiness when pet could not die anymore and switching between them did not require swiftcast. Then felt even more happy when egi assaults came. Those made SMN feel more like Yuna from FFX, using summons to deal dmg.
This is first guide-like I watched ever about SMN (watched your BLM video before checking if SMN version was somewhere). Did not know that there was a site for rotation. Nor that Demis demand SMN changes to BLM for duration. Though I never move during those anyway since managed to time them on phases when everyone including boss stays still.
What I don't get is why people think SMN is hard job to play. Like, I get if people mean most optimal, god-tier parsing it constantly. But for like average play, you just need to read tooltips on abilities, training dummy to see in safe environment what causes which buttons to glow or activate and then yeet yourself into content.
Edit:Forgot to end on a joke, stolen from Larryzaur.
Ahem. Why people don't like SMNs?Because SMN ruins everything. Now where's the door?
i like how he's slowly loses his mind as the vid goes on lol, mans is this close to losing it
Damn this class seems janky af… Imma main it. Jank is kinda charming
Whats his summoner glamour?
what the FUCK i knew like half of these and only had akh morning to guide me
someone's still bitter than SMN dealt more damage than SAM in Eden's Verse haha (great video)
As a summoner main, I found this hilarious
I also had smn lvled because I leveled as a sch at, and then used akhmorning to learn summoner. It was terrible, I just started by running the opener over and over and over and… on S3 until I actually did the whole thing right consistently. Then I had to decipher the rest of the guide to figure out my rotation, a whole process on its own. It took me a week to realize I had been reading the part about going into Phoenix phase wrong and had to relearn that part of the rotation. I basically had to figure out a lot of the basic stuff experimenting on my own.
Honest question. You can just command the greater pet to Stay to avoid losing DPS when you move… Right?… RIGHT?!
Love your channel dude, keep at it! 😎👌🏽💯
This game requires next to no skill to play, its mostly story and people care to maximize damage in a game that literally doesnt even remotely require that to play 99% of the game itself? People are never satisfied.
What a great guide.
and despite it all…. its my favorite dps class to play…
Shittest job in the game, no hyperbole. They need to get rid of pets and simplify the rotation. What the fuck.
Revert Pet AI to stormblood so it doesn't have that ghosting or shit delay duration. pet casts should be instant so it doesn't fucking cancel its wyrmwave procs. When the pet moves it should still cast. Played this job through 3 expansions now, janky af. Fixed alot of button bloat, but job is still shit. Hell, RDM parses higher than us now since they over buffed smn and then repeatedly nerf this class to hell.
Love you brother, coming to your channel to get an useful guide is like going to taco bell to eat real meat.
Returning 70 summoner here. Saw that 2m circle and switched to Dancer. I cannot even remember what I had for dinner last night, much less a damn 2 minute rotation.
11 minutes in and I'm never playing this class.
"strong phase"
Cries in nerfed Tri-disaster
"THATS JUST TRICK ATTACK ON NINJA!" How dare you make me understand why I like SMN.
you're just great, please dont change
I was around level 70 on SMN or so when I started looking up optimisation. I saw the writing on the wall with pet ghosting and getting frustrated with having to Place just to hit everyone with aoe regen on SCH, and bailed from both SMN and SCH hard. Playing RDM and WHM instead and never looked back.
i knew there was a reason i hated playing summoner
If they remove pets and make all the trances one button, SMN will easily be my favorite job.
D’s get degrees btw
Blu guide when?
The other reason you triple weave when entering phoenix phase is because 2.5 x 8 = 20 seconds.
If your gcd is low enough you'll have like microseconds of phoenix to either get a 9th fountain of fire that 99% of the time it doesn't go off and you lose dps
Or hopefully phoenix will end and you'll cast a ruin 3 instead
Or you can wait the couple of microseconds which is doing the same shit but in reverse
All worth it for a big donger on your head
I used to main summoner and now I am a scholar main. I came back to refresh my summoner skills. I think at this point ima just keep clicking all the buttons to see what sticks
he's gonna lose it when he starts dealing with trance rushing
I'm a SCH main, ignored SUM cus WTF IS THAT, last week try it and just understand the rotation like I woke up with forbidden knowledge and a deal with the devil. Out DPS static immediately. Watch this video for fun. "I get Ruin II?" ope. Ruin II = Ruin IV thanks fam