Can we have Bahamut as a Summon PLEASE?

[Juri_Licious]

Forget Bahamut. You guys have no ambition! The avatar I want is ... ALTANA!

Bahamut is mondo tubular though.

[Camiie]

He is and I would gladly accept him no question, but eh after all we SMNs have endured we deserve to be able to summon down the teary-eyed fury of Altana as well!

[Divinechild]

He is and I would gladly accept him no question, but eh after all we SMNs have endured we deserve to be able to summon down the teary-eyed fury of Altana as well!

I like this camiie person

[Camiie]

Remember these are avatars of gods, they're not the gods themselves. You're only summoning a portion of their power. It would make a lot of sense to have the Bahamut we summon be much smaller than the real Bahamut. The size thing just doesn't seem like a very valid reason to me.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Remember these are avatars of gods, they're not the gods themselves. You're only summoning a portion of their power. It would make a lot of sense to have the Bahamut we summon be much smaller than the real Bahamut. The size thing just doesn't seem like a very valid reason to me.

I don't recall them saying they were alligned with any gods.

[Camiie]

I don't recall them saying they were alligned with any gods.

Not all our avatars are representations of gods (which is what an avatar is supposed to be) but many are. The Celestial avatars are considered gods. The Terrestrials are actually empowered beings who would lose their power and sentience if Vana'diel was ever replaced with Paradise. I'm not really sure where Alexander and Odin fit in to that alignment. They do seem to either be considered or consider themselves gods at least.

[Soranika]

I don't recall them saying they were alligned with any gods.

See above. >.> Need to read up on avatar and summoner lore.

[Vold]

The thing with size is that they'd need to basically rework his model for it to work. It really is not as simple as resizing in Bahamut's case. I mean, darn, it could be but really, how cool will you feel when microbahamut shows up to handle the case?

Personally, I say let's do Bahamut, but make him into a 2 hour summon to keep it simple. You wouldn't need to nerf his size or anything. Have him show up, megaflare something's ass off, and flap away back to where ever. And of course the be all end all of BC fights to obtain him. I'm talking Diabolos epic, where there's armies of players trying to beat him but pop out dead as a doorbell one after the other. V3, and this time he's madder than hell and he won't take it any lon-oh crap red proc nevermind he's dead.

Poor Shinryu. Coulda shoulda woulda been #1 if not for those pesky buffs and temps.

[Greatguardian]

The thing with size is that they'd need to basically rework his model for it to work. It really is not as simple as resizing in Bahamut's case. I mean, darn, it could be but really, how cool will you feel when microbahamut shows up to handle the case?

Personally, I say let's do Bahamut, but make him into a 2 hour summon to keep it simple. You wouldn't need to nerf his size or anything. Have him show up, megaflare something's ass off, and flap away back to where ever. And of course the be all end all of BC fights to obtain him. I'm talking Diabolos epic, where there's armies of players trying to beat him but pop out dead as a doorbell one after the other. V3, and this time he's madder than hell and he won't take it any lon-oh crap red proc nevermind he's dead.

Poor Shinryu. Coulda shoulda woulda been #1 if not for those pesky buffs and temps.

The problem with this is that anything that's even remotely difficult or even interesting for the top 1% of players will never, EVER, in a zillion years be completed by the other 99%. The difference in ability between players in this game is astronomical.

That's pretty much the problem with everything in FFXI right now. Either they make it legitimately challenging for high-end players and thus completely inaccessible to the vast majority of players, they make it easy/doable for the vast majority of players and thus an Abyssea yawnfest for mid/high-end players, or they make everything random as all P'tak like they did with Voidwatch.

[Puck]

Guys, guys, guys! You're all missing the big picture. Clearly what SMN needs is more spirits.