There could be an Arcanist off screen that sent in Carbuncle, and that Summoner actually has no summons out.
Smoke and mirrors, people! Without names showing, you can't tell.
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There could be an Arcanist off screen that sent in Carbuncle, and that Summoner actually has no summons out.
Smoke and mirrors, people! Without names showing, you can't tell.
That would be a dream come true. ; ;
The person you were referring to was speaking more specifically to the 0 perp cost that could be obtained with gear.
I think the overall affection toward Carbuncle came from the fact that it was the most widely used (in terms of general utility) and thus was the unofficial mascot of FFXI smns.
This pretty much nails it. Remember that those screenshots come from Development Servers, meaning that Character was likely created, and then with a Console Command, given a full set of SMN gear and not any Job Quests for the purposes of providing a nice screenshot.
We cannot on the Live Server, but with a Console Command ... It's possible for him to equip any piece of SMN gear he wanted to.
While logic is with you on this one, my heart goes out that I'll be able to use Carbuncle on my SMN. =D I mean, it just seems silly to make a screenshot with a SMN and Carbuncle if we weren't going to be able to summon him. I do remember a thread before where the Devs said they weren't going to allow us to summon Carbuncle, they never said we couldn't glamour over Garuda...
Yoshi-P and DEVs, had said on other subjects that they weren't planning on it, but did it anyways. They also sometimes go as far as to tell us why they could now and not then within interviews/live letter Q and A.
When they say no plans, I see it as " We can't atm because of X reason that they fail to mention till they can actually do it".
It works in opposite too, remember the "Roaming Primals" that they were suppose to add? It's not that they can't, it's either they abandoned the idea or something is holding them back from doing so.
I don't see what's so special about a blue pikachu, call me when you can summon zodiark.