Fixed.
Do you really think SMN's avatars are THAT good? We can't DD til 65, IF we have Fenrir, and that's only remotely reliable on stuff VT or lower. The 70BPs do okay damage, but the only real plus-side to those is that the chunk of damage is does can be thrown away with a mere push of the "Release" command (though if done at the start of a fight, can hold hate long enough to set up TA)
Ecliptic Howl. Decent, usefulness varies between mobs/moon phases.
Ecliptic Growl. Good.
Lunar Cry. Can be good, usefulness varies between mobs/moon phases...if it even hits.
Lunar Roar. Good, except it misses a lot.
Shining Ruby. Crap.
Glittering Ruby. Can be VERY good if stacked with Growl, but chance of it buffing a useful stat isn't too great.
Healing Ruby. Good until you get Cure II.
Healing Ruby II. A godsend.
Aerial Armor? Only good if the mob hits for gross amounts of damage and/or hate is an issue, in which someone's sucking at their job or you're fighting something way too strong.
Earthen Ward? Decent. Might absorb one AOE, huge might.
Rolling Thunder? Seemed OK in CN, otherwise crap.
Tail Whip? Can open some low-level SCs, but it's acc is bad. Quickly becomes crap.
Those Ice/Shock spikes moves, crap crap crap.
Hastega, decent, though it'll drain 1/5 of your MP at lower levels. Duration is crap.
Ifrit's Warcry move, I use it so little I forgot the name...might be good if you communicate with melees and time it pre-WS, but it's duration vs. MP cost is way too horrible to be that useful, and Ecliptic Growl would help more overall in the end...so crap.
All of their tier-II nukes...might be good if MBed, post-Yuhgunta, crap.
All of their tier-IV nukes...might be good if MBed and you have time to keep out your avatar long enough to get some pet TP so it doesn't do f-!king 400.
No, SMN doesn't need more avatars, but their earlier BPs really needto be better. =P We get maybe 12 good BPs from 1-75, and 8 of them are post-60.
