SMN Egi glamour

Has there been any word on the SMN's egi glamour system in any of the live letters?

Not yet to my knowledge, but it has been mentioned several times around here, so I hope it'll come.
I'm totally not inclined to play my SMN at the moment, that would give me some motivation.

I don't really know anymore...it is hard to keep up with info since they don't post it on the forums anymore...or have a page for the patch still.

After first announcing it, when it was brought up again their answer was more or less "Well, doing all the animations and modelling will take a lot of work, so we don't know when we'll get around to it." I'd say the best bet is to not sit around waiting for it since it's probably several major patches away, if it's even in the active workflow right now.

...since when?

Last we heard was that they haven't started working on it at all because [excuses]. /shrug

Kinda baffling they can have 150 minion, each with their own animations, but a classic final fantasy job such as summoner gets 3 egi's. Pathetic.

I wish they would throw us a bone and let us revert garuda and titan into carbuncles.

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Originally Posted by atomicdeath

Kinda baffling they can have 150 minion, each with their own animations, but a classic final fantasy job such as summoner gets 3 egi's. Pathetic.

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It really is. And they do not even feel like pets...they're just kinda...there.

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Originally Posted by Limecat

After first announcing it, when it was brought up again their answer was more or less "Well, doing all the animations and modelling will take a lot of work, so we don't know when we'll get around to it." I'd say the best bet is to not sit around waiting for it since it's probably several major patches away, if it's even in the active workflow right now.

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wait.... seriously?! that's the latest news on egi glamour?

So we went from:

New Summons in a future patch >

New Summons in the xpac to make it fair to other classes >

No new summons in the xpac because there is only three primary roles for SMN pets they wanted to focus on, but we will get pet glamours >

SMN pet glamours? We are not working on them, but we will get around to it!

This is such disappointing news T_____T I was really looking forward to changing some of the egi to other skins.

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Originally Posted by zosia

wait.... seriously?! that's the latest news on egi glamour?

So we went from:

New Summons in a future patch >

New Summons in the xpac to make it fair to other classes >

No new summons in the xpac because there is only three primary roles for SMN pets they wanted to focus on, but we will get pet glamours >

SMN pet glamours? We are not working on them, but we will get around to it!

This is such disappointing news T_____T I was really looking forward to changing some of the egi to other skins.

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Not quite.
The last thing we've heard about it, was the they were going to start working on them (at the time of the 23rd Live Letter), and asked us to be patient about it.

And we will be able to change the skins of our Egis once it's up.
It's just that they will conform to the Caster/Tank/Attacker-Types we already have.

Can we please just stop calling that "thing" Summoner?

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Originally Posted by Yukiko

Can we please just stop calling that "thing" Summoner?

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Why?

It's a job that calls forth a pet to fight alongside you.
That's the very definition of Summoner (then again, the same could be said about the Scholar job and Arcanist class...).

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Originally Posted by Exodus-E

Why?

It's a job that calls forth a pet to fight alongside you.
That's the very definition of Summoner (then again, the same could be said about the Scholar job and Arcanist class...).

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It's definitely the weakest iteration of SMN I have ever encountered in the franchise. There are things SE could do to make it feel more like SMN, but for one reason or another, they just don't want to give players what they want. Hopefully these egi glamours come out soon.

Between BLM not really using thunder much and SMN feeling more like BLM these days, I hardly feel like an FF caster anymore =/

I gave up on BLM feeling like BLM when the design of this game asked me to spam Fire on Ifrit because elemental resistance isn't a thing and even if it were, we don't have a spell selection to support that.

As for SMN, beyond Shiva / Ramuh glamour, I'd really like a skeleton. Now some of you might say that a skeleton isn't very summoner-like. Well, neither is SMN as a whole. So if I'm going to be casting Bio and Miasma and killing things with diseases rather than doing much that resembles a summoner, I'd like a skeleton pet to go with my Necromancer.

And the beating of the dead horse begins.

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Originally Posted by Razard

Feedback, it's a bad thing.

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fixed that for ya.

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Originally Posted by Yukiko

Can we please just stop calling that "thing" Summoner?

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I think they should rename it to something else like "Arcana Master" or perhaps "Egi Master" or perhaps even something else then introduce a whole new Summoner Job.

Arcana Master would work because it would show to be the next step in the Arcanist evolution. atleast I think so.

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Originally Posted by zosia

It's definitely the weakest iteration of SMN I have ever encountered in the franchise. There are things SE could do to make it feel more like SMN, but for one reason or another, they just don't want to give players what they want. Hopefully these egi glamours come out soon.

Between BLM not really using thunder much and SMN feeling more like BLM these days, I hardly feel like an FF caster anymore =/

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I wont lie, I came from FFXI and honestly thought the SMN in FFXIV would be more like that one. No I didnt expect it to be exactly the same(a good example of similar but not the same would be WHM in FFXI) but come on look at the Avatars in that one compared to the EGIs in this one.....
the things I'm told about previous versions of SMN FFXI excluded was that their Avatars or whatever you called them in each game were called forth to do a single move and went away. I don't see how this would be a bad thing for XIV....

anyway back on topic. as soon as they release the Egi Glamours I'm going to change that floating pile of chicken nuggets to something more appealing.....

Who cares what the summoner was in other FF titles? In THIS game it's the summoner.

Having my old carbuncles would already be better than that floating bearded rock and the yellow birdy, but I wouldn't mind Shiva/Ravana - just not as "egi".

i agree about blm, back in 1.0 ffxiv conjurer was actually the blm with all the elemental spells, thaumaturge was the healing necromancer as i would call him with spells such as sacrifice, dia, bio, poison, shadow darts, syphon etc etc, elemental resistance was in the game, wish they added it again, but sadly it is not possible now that cnj has earth and wind and a water spell and thm has fire and ice.
regarding smn i am still waiting for my yuna one or lady iceheart one, but i think we are too far with the smn problem for it to be fixed at all, we need a new class for that, so i am hoping for the egi skins now if they ever come, before i give up on him entirely
kazeandi i do care how much my smn is similar to other ff titles because i liked that summoner, i love this game and it would be perfect if i can play a job i always wanted inside this beautiful world , i want it to be as ffxi or ffx or ffix one, same goes to blm as well i want that darn elemental resistance back

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Originally Posted by Soralis

kazeandi i do care how much my smn is similar to other ff titles because i liked that summoner, i love this game and it would be perfect if i play a job i always wanted inside this beautiful world , i want it to be as ffxi or ffx or ffix one, same goes to blm as well i want that darn elemental resistance back

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if they made it like the FFXI SMN I would be all over that. SMN is my second favourite job in XI right after WHM.
though not sure how it would work since they removed the elemental wheel from XIV(I still think this was a mistake but they had their reasons). in XI you chose your Avatar based either on the element the enemy was weak to or you chose it based on how much damage it could do(I.E. Predatar Claws(Garuda) or Eclipse Bite(Fenrir)=Physical Slashing damage and not many things were strong to said damage)

Not expecting much with the Egi glamour, if/when it comes. They're most likely going to have the same aesthetics as the current ones, and then the same level of complaints will happen again.

In my view, they should've had SMN retain the carbuncles in contrast to SCH fairies, and have the Egis represented as a variety of offensive or defensive spells/effects (no, not as long cutscenes) depending on Egi used.

yes like folklore game if anyone played, egis like spell effects, not long cutscenes, no one wants that

SCH B> Carby Imbued with fairy magicks D:

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Originally Posted by FeliAiko

They're most likely going to have the same aesthetics as the current ones

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I personally like the way the egis look, even though I know a lot of the SMN community hates them. I just wish I had more of a variety to choose from.

I do agree I would like to see it more suited to the job title. As someone mentioned in another post, I wouldn't argue if they were more akin to how Yuna plays in Dissidia012. To me, the Egi/Primal/Summon needs to be the main point of the job, not my dots.
http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/...afer/ifrit.gif

I wonder if we'll get some glamours for our fairies too. (A healing carbuncle would be amazing)

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Originally Posted by Soralis

yes like folklore game if anyone played, egis like spell effects, not long cutscenes, no one wants that

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Funny story about Folklore. I played it once years ago and couldn't find it, or any mention of it, ever since. I had convinced myself that it was never actually real until recently when i saw it in the discount games bin at Walmart.

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

I do agree I would like to see it more suited to the job title. As someone mentioned in another post, I wouldn't argue if they were more akin to how Yuna plays in Dissidia012. To me, the Egi/Primal/Summon needs to be the main point of the job, not my dots.
http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/...afer/ifrit.gif

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I've been saying this forever, i loved Yuna in Dissidia

I like that spell effect much better than the actual egis.
They could have used normal Voidsents for pets.

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Originally Posted by zosia

fixed that for ya.

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Not when the "feedback" boils down to: "Waaaah I don't liiiiike it. It looks icky pooey!"

And people wonder why S-E doesn't reply to anything Smn related.