Summoner Tanking Pet

I prefer the new titan egi personally.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

The summoner tanking pet never actually served the purpose of tanking, though - except for very few niche instances like job-quests. Other than that it has never been effectively used and was only called by inexperienced, leveling summoners and annoyed the hell out of the tank in question.

The tank-egi will now fill the role of a support-summon and maybe will actually be of some use in day-to-day life.

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No one remembers how we used to cheese Ramuh EX with titan egi's before SE decided to nerf it? >.>

It all falls on the chocobo now. Titan is useless.

Quality time with the striking dummy coming up!

I never used Titan to tank lol but I'm sorry if some of you guys are upset about it.

If BLM is able to solo overworld mobs and solo quest, so is a SMN without a pet tank. If you're struggling without it you're doing something wrong. Titan never had a reliable enough enmity generation and damage mitigation to make it a viable option to replace a tank in any situation where it would matter aside from the very first dungeons if your tank d/ced or that one time on Ramuh where Titan was immune to the TB stacks and could tank the old man as long as people kept their enmity in check, but that was patched relatively quickly.

If you're on the overworld you can use your chocobo if you need a tank and solo instances can be cleared the same way any other dps class manage it without a pet tank. At least now there might be some times where you'll be able to use Titan in endgame to mitigate some boss ultimate moves in raid.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

The summoner tanking pet never actually served the purpose of tanking, though - except for very few niche instances like job-quests. Other than that it has never been effectively used and was only called by inexperienced, leveling summoners and annoyed the hell out of the tank in question.

The tank-egi will now fill the role of a support-summon and maybe will actually be of some use in day-to-day life.

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Uh...guess I'm doing it wrong then. I use titan-egi all the time while leveling and it holds aggro just fine. Of course I don't use it in dungeons where there is already a tank. But I use titan quite literally all the time during solo play.

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Originally Posted by Lium

Uh...guess I'm doing it wrong then. I use titan-egi all the time while leveling and it holds aggro just fine. Of course I don't use it in dungeons where there is already a tank. But I use titan quite literally all the time during solo play.

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You could have used Ifrit and killed things significantly faster.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

The summoner tanking pet never actually served the purpose of tanking, though - except for very few niche instances like job-quests. Other than that it has never been effectively used and was only called by inexperienced, leveling summoners and annoyed the hell out of the tank in question.

The tank-egi will now fill the role of a support-summon and maybe will actually be of some use in day-to-day life.

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But, but, but, but I used it to do Uznair :c

That being said, yeah, it was quite rarely used to be honest, you're right. I'm not really one to cry at the changes and even thought it surprised me, I thought meh, we'll work around that lol

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Originally Posted by CorbinDallas

You could have used Ifrit and killed things significantly faster.

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I dunno, it felt natural to me being a caster that I would use a tank pet while soloing. All the other DPS pets came out in dungeons/trials/Eureka depending on the situations and the boss. Titan is the pet I used by far the most while leveling.