Originally Posted by
MartaDemireux
On MP problems: It's less about the loss of DPS with not having your pet out for a couple seconds as it is redundant to fill your MP bar only to have to deplete it immediately after by 532(?). Sacrificing a pet's HP to restore your MP over time as a reverse Sustain would be the best way to go about this in my opinion. Another option (but would also impact SCH) would be to allow Aetherflow to increase your maximum MP in the same way that Defiance does with HP. Defiance turns each point of VIT from giving you 14.5 HP at level 50 to 18. Aetherflow could give you 10 or so MP per PIE instead of the normal 8 at 50. I believe this would increase MP enough to give an ample auto-refresh while Aetherflow is active (which it should be most of the time). SCH doesn't really have MP trouble as it is though so this could make it a bit overpowered. The inverse of this however is that WHM generally has more PIE from their weapons leaving them with a bit more MP anyway. Might not be an issue at all.
On egi's: As far as their appearance, that's all lore. Think of it as if you're imbuing just 3 crystals and/or gemstones (I forget if the egi's use gemstones too or if it's just carbuncles) with the power of the primals. It takes tens of thousands just to summon the easy mode primals if I recall correctly. These 3 crystals we're using just basically mutate the crystal into the primals likeness. Therefor their Enkindles shouldn't look exactly like their beefed up versions, they should look inferior to them as they do. However if you look carefully at the animations, they do look like smaller/weaker versions of the primals special attacks.