My Concerns/Ideas for the Pet Glamour System

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Originally Posted by Bishop81

/sigh

Personally I don't care about having new Egis, I just want the glamour system out and functional.

They won't even confirm it for 3.1 ... It makes me very sad. :(

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Well the glamour system are how these new Egi are being implemented, so they are one and the same. I would love some new info on it also, alas I think it is safe to say we won't see it until around 3.3 at least, especially if they are added in bulk. But I don't mind waiting longer for them, at least they are coming.

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Originally Posted by Bman10119

EDIT: as for an additional HW primal, we already have one. the king. King is tank, bismark is caster, ravana is melee. No?

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Yeah the "King" is a possibility, of course Alexander is another potential candidate and would suit the Tank role well.

I don't care what the egi looks like as long as its Ramuh and he is calling down lightning from the sky man that would be so cool:cool:

bump bump bump :/

Did they confirm we were getting Leviathan, Ramuh, and Shiva already? Or is this just speculation

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Originally Posted by Meow9000

Did they confirm we were getting Leviathan, Ramuh, and Shiva already? Or is this just speculation

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Only thing actually mentioned was carby.

Wish I could get any SE reply....

To be honest I'm disappointed in what they are doing with the summoner. Personally I'd like to go away with the "Egi's" completely and redesign the class to be more spell based like the all other Final Fantasy titles besides XI. If they want to keep the "pet" idea please make the class a real minion master one. The current pets are poorly designed, generic, and barely do any of your damage. Though I understand to an extent why they aren't making more "Egis" I think it is also a lazy way out of the design hole they dug themselves in. The summoner in this game doesn't feel like something out of Final Fantasy sadly. I wouldn't mind giving them the time to completely redesign the job. I think it would be better in the end. Sorry to anyone who likes this DoTs "Summoner." My personal opinion is it doesn't live up to its heritage or the initial hype when announced.

If SE doesn't do this I hope at the very least they let you glamor any "Egi" with any primal skin (there are many ways to make it clear to others which one you are actually using). Also adding more power to Egis in future patches/expansions instead of DoTs spells.

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Originally Posted by Owatatsumi

To be honest I'm disappointed in what they are doing with the summoner.

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I agree 100000%. Summoners should either be:

1) A completely pet-based job with a wide array of pets.

2) A burst class, with spell animations/names that invoke the IMAGE of the primals (like basically every ability being like Dreadwyrm stance).

Right now it's just a hodgepodge of both, which is underwhelming. 3 pets (only 2 of which you'll ever use) and 1 spell that invokes the image of a primal.

The only thing I'm really concern about this Egi Glamour System is:What about the actions that pet will cast? because I don't like the idea of having, by example, an Shiva-Egi casting "wind blade" or a Ramuh-Egi punching with "burning strike" lol it would be sad

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Originally Posted by valoiz2

The only thing I'm really concern about this Egi Glamour System is:What about the actions that pet will cast? because I don't like the idea of having, by example, an Shiva-Egi casting "wind blade" or a Ramuh-Egi punching with "burning strike" lol it would be sad

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I share that same fear. I don't want them to just cheese out on this glamour system...but I don't want it to be TOO restricting at the same time.

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Originally Posted by valoiz2

The only thing I'm really concern about this Egi Glamour System is:What about the actions that pet will cast? because I don't like the idea of having, by example, an Shiva-Egi casting "wind blade" or a Ramuh-Egi punching with "burning strike" lol it would be sad

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If they do it right they'd create all Egis of the Primals with their own animations and just have the actions carry over. True it would be harder this way because the programming will likely have to be tailored to each but at least they aren't completely re-doing the concept and the framework should stay the same. So yeah, I can see the underlining mechanics remain the same but the animations completely overhauled. But it all depends on how flexible the package of coding for Egis currently is and if they are willing to redesign it for the current glamor "base" per "role" if it isn't easily modifiable. Sounds like a good opportunity to redesign the pets but that's just me.

Yeah, it'd be pretty sad if only the shell of the Primals changed with the glamor but the attack animations (Titan's, Ifrit's, etc.) didn't.

Bumping yet again. :/