STORMBLOOD Primals

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Originally Posted by Parodine

Admittedly I'd love to see Ixion, but I find him hard to fit in stylelistically to Stormblood...

Centaur Beast-tribe? lol

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There are (was?) a centaur beast tribe

They were in Meracydia and their primal was the Warring Triad: Zurvan

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

The devs have discussed this a lot. I'll explain briefly but I suggest you do your own research. The devs cannot (will not) give SMN new egis because each egi represents 4 skills and a buttload of balancing. Even one new egi can change SMN drastically, which is why they decided to go down the trance route, and instead propose egi glamour for those who don't like the look of these 3 (supposedly releasing in 3.5).

Also... of the three egis, only one is ever used, if we had four, only one would ever get used, what a massive waste of resources that would be.

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Well so far only one does ever get used so better off to overhaul the class and remove the egis all together less time wasted on making the models and more time focused on making the class. You can summon temporary ones that give a buff of some sort and attack for a short period of time and then vanish. Contagion is overpowered and has made using ifrit useless so no point in having any other ones in the game right? Having them stick around temporarily would fit more with the lore of borrowing the powers of primals then to have them out all the time. The class is in need of a massive overhaul because it was rushed out and this is what they could come up with for the class at the time.

I'd love to see Asura, Madeen and Yojimbo for the expansion. Cross fingers :)

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Originally Posted by Inosaska

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Ifrit has his uses in that he has a stun (something the casters themselves lack) and party wide defense buff, he also parses ever so slightly more in most fights. And, he has his own DoT!

Contagion is still more useful as far as raw damage output goes to keep the DoTs up during Dreadwyrm trance, but Ifrit's far from useless.

....but, honestly, reworking SMN into a slow steady, burst caster verses the DoT mage with a pet that's an mini version may be better in the long run. Give us puppeteer or beastmaster for those of us who enjoy the current job.

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Originally Posted by Jandor

I'm still holding out hope that we get another as yet unannounced primal in the 3.X run.
I fight it slightly weird that we have no ice/lightning primal to round out the air/water/Bismarck and fire/earth/Ravana set.

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Surprisingly nobody fly over the airship to look at those statues.
Obviously there is still one primal to come for Heavenward.

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Originally Posted by Pompompar

Surprisingly nobody fly over the airship to look at those statues.
Obviously there is still one primal to come for Heavenward.

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Unannounced primal. We all know who the statues are. The last one will complete the Warring Triad.

The elemental triad will most likely remain unfinished, not that finishing it was ever even hinted at, I'd just like it to be.

3 MAGUS SISTERS PLEASE!!!

Regarding the dual aspected primals, I just want to point out that Ravana and Bismarck actually encompass half of the wheel, though certain elements are not as prominent.

Ravana is the bigger offender there, not directly using Blizzard attacks while using fire and earth attacks. But the Adds use ice attacks (and Ravana battle the Ice Aspected Shiva first)

Bismarck on the other hand does use all three via his weather effects, even then he uses Water attacks more often with the Vanu adds using Wind attacks as well as the only in battle clue to its aspect (Wind and Water) being the Sanuwa adds.

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Originally Posted by Violyre

I just looked through a list of all the summons, and none really struck me for a raid theme (Like Coil and Alexander.)

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Well Doomtrain could be an Alexander like Primal ?

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Originally Posted by Inosaska

Well so far only one does ever get used so better off to overhaul the class and remove the egis all together less time wasted on making the models and more time focused on making the class. You can summon temporary ones that give a buff of some sort and attack for a short period of time and then vanish. Contagion is overpowered and has made using ifrit useless so no point in having any other ones in the game right? Having them stick around temporarily would fit more with the lore of borrowing the powers of primals then to have them out all the time. The class is in need of a massive overhaul because it was rushed out and this is what they could come up with for the class at the time.

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I agree somewhat, but I don't see that happening any time soon, if ever.