Egi Glamour is coming out for 3.5....

It's an oversight, and it's a shame, but honestly, compare the volume of content released in 2.4 to now. They didn't purposely intend to leave out Egi's or say nothing about it. But when you have Apartments, Squadrons, PotD update, Sophia, Hildibrand, other story, GC rank up, QOL changes like materia, camera customization, ability to watch certain PVP matches, Dueling, aquariums, orchestration additions, Server Cluster rooms for Triple Triad, ability to DF Verminion anywhere, Wondrous Tails, etc, sadly ya, a design that is only focused for a single job will end up in the back burner. If the egi concept affected more jobs, I could see them putting it in sooner, but look at the above and the QoL changes and ask yourself, would it be fair to remove any of the above just to suffice the SMN playerbase that wants to customize their egi? It wouldn't be fair.


But see now that they have focused on one of the bigger issues, Housing for everyone, they can now hopefully spend those resources they spent getting apartments in check on other content and maybe if you are lucky they will decide to release more than one egi.

Though I will agree, at this point, an update on the actual process would be nice seeing as it got pushed back again since it would be interesting to see the direction they are taking with it. But I guess they are saving that for the next live letter, or heck maybe a tease at fanfest lol.

Sorry but glamour for egi sounds lazy. Instead of glamour i rather want them to re design the whole egi things. A garuda egi dresses up as ramuh egi looks lazy..

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Originally Posted by Johaandr

Sorry but glamour for egi sounds lazy. Instead of glamour i rather want them to re design the whole egi things. A garuda egi dresses up as ramuh egi looks lazy..

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The devs outright stated just prior to 3.0 that SMN will not get any more pets. The egi glamour system is supposed to be a compromise to make up for it. Yes, it's not as good as new proper summons but we've long-since accepted that new pets just isn't going to happen at this stage.

Where are the SCH glamours though. #JusticeForScholar

I am now wondering if they have just started to work on it as of now, or they have been on the side making slow progress. Because now I am more worried about how its going to look like than rather when we are actually getting it.

What I hope it will look like though, Garuda Egi as example, replaced by another Egi, Shiva, Ramuh etc but got the same skill effects as Garuda. That would make summoners more unique than seeing Garuda's everywhere. Or they allow us to summon different colored Carbuncles but again with same skills the Egi themselves, Red Carby Ifrit for example.

But more I think about that idea, the more I start to think if they should just delay the whole thing for the jobs overhaul they talked about for 4.0 and rework all the Egi looks all together. Honestly they cant say PS3 limits them if they decide to cut support for 4.0 and foreward, screen clutter of big Egi's make its harder for people to see etc. Just look at how FFXI PS2 handled the bigger Avatars just fine-ish.

Could care less about egi glamour. And I mained SMN for all of 2.0, carbuncle glamour isn't something to be excited for.

I just want to use carby :(

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Originally Posted by Alberel

The devs outright stated just prior to 3.0 that SMN will not get any more pets. The egi glamour system is supposed to be a compromise to make up for it. Yes, it's not as good as new proper summons but we've long-since accepted that new pets just isn't going to happen at this stage.

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I'd say it's the best option, actually... We already have a mage, tank and melee pet... Adding additional ones is going to be either broken or redundant, or both... Titan-Egi is already a waste of space, what the hell is Summon IV going to add that's worthwhile? It would take a complete rework of Summoner to work effectively, and that just isn't going to happen... Right now we could go up to Summon XVIII;

Carbuncle-Egi
Moggle Mog-Egi
Leviathan-Egi
Ramuh-Egi
Shiva-Egi
Odin-Egi
Phoenix-Egi
Bahamut-Egi
Ravana-Egi
Bismarck-Egi
Thordan-Egi
Sephirot-Egi
Sophia-Egi
Zurvan-Egi
Alexander-Egi

There is just no way Summoner can get that in a satisfying manner... Egi-Glamours isn't a compromise, it's the only way we're ever going to get those without an utter mess of a Job, they'll either be broken or redundant... They could perhaps adjust skills to cut some corners, we don't need Bahamut-Egi, for example, because we've got Dreadwyrm Trance... Likewise, Resurrect could be adjusted to effectively be Phoenix-Egi, just add some AoE damage to it and change the animation... Something like that could work, but only for some... Change Eye for an Eyes animation to effectively be us summoning Ravana-Egi on a target, for example... That leaves the remaining Egi as an unsatisfying mess though... I'm sick of Garuda-Egi, give me Carbuncle plus the main elemental six if nothing else, and let me pick which I use... If I pick Ifrit, I get him for tank and mage too... I think that's more true to the spirit of Summoner, and it potentially gives us something to go out and collect, which is also pretty true to the Jobs history.

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Originally Posted by Ollieland

Where are the SCH glamours though. #JusticeForScholar

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Ideally, I'd like them to change how Summon skills work, so it should effect Scholar IMO... Have Summon I/II/III work the same as Shield Bash/Swipe/Lob, in that you need something in the offhand equipped to use them... You get Arcanist, and you have a Carbuncle Ruby to summon Carbuncle (bonus points if we can dye it for different variations on the radioactive squirrel). When you unlock Summoner, you get items to equip that relate to the specific Primal, equip an Inferno thing and Summon I/II/III are summoning Ifrit-Egi, for example. Meanwhile, Scholar gets an item for Eos and Selene. Both Jobs can revert back to the Carbuncle Ruby, though. I'd love a healer type Carbuncle... Healing Ruby, please?

For me Yoshida is like Peter Molyneux, untill I see it ingame, I am going to assume that it wont be added to the game. Worst thing is that the first glamour will be Carbuncle only, this means that we will not see the other Primal EGI untill the expansion gets released or worse 4.1.

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Originally Posted by Alberel

The devs outright stated just prior to 3.0 that SMN will not get any more pets. The egi glamour system is supposed to be a compromise to make up for it. Yes, it's not as good as new proper summons but we've long-since accepted that new pets just isn't going to happen at this stage.

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Can you link that quote please? If that's true I'm done playing summoner. We aren't doing new summons because the trinity is already covered. Ok then why add new jobs at all if trinity is covered? First they strip the wheel from Black Mage now summoners are truncated into 3 tiny midgets and not a midget more added ever.