Carbuncle for Summoners!

Pet Glamour!

I was JUST thinking about this over the weekend. I would absolutely love to be able to summon the carbuncles again, as a summoner. I liked my emerald and topaz much more than I like Garuda and Titan.

Support for Carbuncle! And... isn't he a fox?

But please, never this again: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...-Carbuncle.png

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Originally Posted by kidvideo

Support for Carbuncle! And... isn't he a fox?

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I have always felt that Carby looked more like a rabbit, but with a big fluffy tail. So rabbit/fox hybrid.

Garuda's my girl and all, and I love her little noises she makes when I tell her to do something, but I do love Carbuncle. I recently made an Arcanist alt (so I can play SCH with all MND) and man, it's good having him back.

What I dont understand is why SCH got 2 palete swapped faries instead of Eos for heals and Carby for support, as carby is usually a support summon (at least he was in VIII, would cast reflect on the entire party)

Carbuncle is so cute. Besides the fact he's green/gold and sparkles, he reminds me of my cat who's got a similar cute face and poofy tail.

Yes, please!! I would much rather have Carby instead of the egis.

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Originally Posted by kidvideo

Support for Carbuncle! And... isn't he a fox?

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squirrel! (momonga)

http://thefeaturedcreature.thefeatur...301027-212.jpg

The main reason I went SCH instead of SMN after hitting 30 with my ACN was because I didn't like how the egis looked. Having the ability to change the appearance to Carbuncle, though, would totally make me want to use that SMN soul crystal! =D

Would love to hear a word from the devs on this!

IMO, they need to get rid of "summon I-III" and have it free choice as to what you can summon as summoner. I too wish I could use carbuncle sometimes....

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Originally Posted by DarkStar

Reading through this topic, I find myself wondering if I'm the only person in the entirety of FFXIV ARR that actually LIKES the Egis...

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I agree whole heartedly with you. Carby was ok for the start, but I really LIKE the Egis. True they may not be as epic as in FFXI, but this isn't FFXI, and I enjoy the new designs and take on the SMN class.

I just wonder why only jobs are the only available options once you're level 30+
I'd like to play as a lvl50 Arcanist (with carbuncles), maurauder, or conjurer... but for now classes are just useless comparing to jobs.

Yeah... I took off the soul stone, lost Summon III & a few key abilities like Enkindle & Fester. I was also unable to use Blizzard II which I previously had as a secondary ability. There was nothing to compensate for being a pure level 50 Arcanist. I wonder what the logic is here...

I should have tried a duty roulette to see how long it would take before I was vote kicked.

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Originally Posted by nicomede

I just wonder why only jobs are the only available options once you're level 30+
I'd like to play as a lvl50 Arcanist (with carbuncles), maurauder, or conjurer... but for now classes are just useless comparing to jobs.

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It feels like the point to not using job crystals was to have a much better cross class selection. And then they went all FF11 on us and made sure everything cross class is at least useless unless you are a melee class.

Would be nice if they did do this

Seems there is a lot more support for this than i had anticipated! Sure, there are people who don't mind or even prefer the egi's, but choice never hurts ^^.

Heck it would be nice if they made it so that Garuda isnt the only viable summon at 50, at this stage theres no point to ifrit or titan at all.

Hello,

We confirmed with the Battle team that there are currently no plans to allow summoners to call forth carbuncle.

I use titan when I solo. I would like to use ifrit when there are no other melee with the tank but then again it's not the dev its the players that are doing this.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

We confirmed with the Battle team that there are currently no plans to allow summoners to call forth carbuncle.

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Aww, not even the ability to glamour the Egis to look like Carbuncles?

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Originally Posted by Moheeheeko

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This could be achieved by adding a passive buff to each primal that affects all party members within X yalms of the summon. Thus way certain primal would be more appropriate for certain situations or certain party compositions.

For example, Ifrit-egi automatically adds a 5% physical damage increase to all party members near it. This would make Ifrit worth summoning in a melee-dense party.
Likewise, Garuda would grant a 5% magic damage buff and Titan would grant a 5% defense buff.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

We confirmed with the Battle team that there are currently no plans to allow summoners to call forth carbuncle.

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Next thing you're going to tell us is there's no plans for Dragoon to have a wyvern pet :(

:p

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Originally Posted by Schaeffa

Aww, not even the ability to glamour the Egis to look like Carbuncles?

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Now, that my friend is a brilliant idea!
I totally support this.

Back to Arcanist it is then! ;)

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

We confirmed with the Battle team that there are currently no plans to allow summoners to call forth carbuncle.

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Shenanigans! Well, are there plans to balance out the base class Arcanist? Not so they out power a Summoner, but something to give a 50 Arcanist a use?

the Egi's are so screwy in this game. Because there is no longer that 'elemental wheel' the Egi's are so limited and restricted to Dps/tank class instead of just being elemental power. They plan to throw in a couple more Egi's in the future, but how different are they going to be? I'd rather not replace my pets but be able to use them all.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

We confirmed with the Battle team that there are currently no plans to allow summoners to call forth carbuncle.

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And may I ask, why we can't? We use our "jobs" more than our "classes" so for the people that wanna use Carbuncle to fight with, why are they restricted?

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Originally Posted by Schaeffa

Aww, not even the ability to glamour the Egis to look like Carbuncles?

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yes please !

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

We confirmed with the Battle team that there are currently no plans to allow summoners to call forth carbuncle.

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I has a sad. :(

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

We confirmed with the Battle team that there are currently no plans to allow summoners to call forth carbuncle.

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How bout we get together with the battle team and make some plans then?

Oh well this sucks. Would've loved more variety in terms of what I can summon. That and carbuncle looks cute and like an actual summon.

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Originally Posted by AmalahRose

I like the Egis, but I do miss that little blue squirrel.

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Pikablue! XD

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Originally Posted by Rex

Next thing you're going to tell us is there's no plans for Dragoon to have a wyvern pet :(

:p

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To late they already stated that a while back. Although I do think we will get a wyvern mount at some point.

This below is something they said they would be looking into after 2.0

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...oon-pet/page31
Originally Posted by Naoki Yoshida
for Dragoon I know what you guys mean as an image, so for example, it’s hard to do with current engine so it will be for the new engine but say like when you jump dragon is summoned and dragon uses a breath, so we’re looking into stuff like that of course. [...] we are looking into ways to link with dragons so please look forward to it in the future.

The first half of that post he stated if they was going to add a wyvern they would have to balance the job and would make the dragoon weaker alone unless it had its wyvern. When it was put forward to the player base a lot of people said they would rather not have Wyvern.

I agree I would like them to add something to the class system after 30 it is wasted (What was point it even leveling past 30). I dunno maybe offer a different direction strengthening the base job after 30 adding extra spells and abilities.

Take Conjurer give them white magic nukes and let them sign into dd slot or Thaumatage let them absorb hp from the mob and transfer the hp to other members and sign up as a healer. I know not possible/realistic suggestions would just like MORE from the system I think base classes are wasted.

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Originally Posted by Masekase_Hurricane

I agree I would like them to add something to the class system after 30 it is wasted (What was point it even leveling past 30). I dunno maybe offer a different direction strengthening the base job after 30 adding extra spells and abilities.

Take Conjurer give them white magic nukes and let them sign into dd slot or Thaumatage let them absorb hp from the mob and transfer the hp to other members and sign up as a healer. I know not possible/realistic suggestions would just like MORE from the system I think base classes are wasted.

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You're misunderstanding how the Armoury System works - you're still always levelling your 'class' even when you have the Job equipped - the Job doesn't replace the class it just adds onto it (sacrificing some cross class slots for it's own unique abilities and a stat increase).

If you read the chat log every time you gain exp with a Job equipped, it will actually mention in the message 'xxxx received xxxx <insert class name here> experience points!' instead of the Job's name. 1.0 actually stated both the Job's name and it's default class name beside it in brackets on the GUI to avoid such confusion, which I wish SE would have retained. But ah well.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Hello,

We confirmed with the Battle team that there are currently no plans to allow summoners to call forth carbuncle.

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Most depressing news of the day. :( Next thing I know someone will tell me that Carbuncle really didn't move in with a nice family on a farm.

I'm Sorry that is some ball crap right there Carbuncle is a damn summon so as a summoner we should be able to summon him. You need to listen to ur player base on this. Stop screwing up the Summoner and the egis I hate to think what Shiva egi will look like i think at that point i will stop using summoner altogether because of this pulley thought out class when it comes to the look and ability's of the summon and the use of them in party's..

Think whats more important for summoner at the rpesent is making Ifrit a viable option to use, as viable as Garuda.

Overall Ifrit does higher DPS than Garuda, but has a fatal flaw... It keeps dieing! Saw it today in Amdapor, SMn using Ifrit, dieing constantly on boss fights from PBAE. Addin a waste of mana to keep resummoning.

Simple fix would be to make it immune or take minimal damage from AE in pve.

Otherwise is it viable to switch between Ifrit for low hp trash where in many cases the normal dot duration expires before they are dead, nullifying the extender from Garuda, then switching to Garuda for protracted fights?