Summoner could of been so much cooler...

[EmeraldSerenade]

It's for the best. With the current summoning system, you don't drain mana having monsters summoned and floating around. It would get really old really quickly seeing full primal models floating around everywhere.

I guess they could re-use the bloodpact system. Supercharge your Egi, resulting in a full primal model (scaled down), which rapidly drains your mana but boosts summon damage.

I'm not an ideas person, so w/e.

[ZakarnRosewood]

Just FYI, the actual summoning system is not in place yet, only the pet aspect of it. The summoning aspect will be set up in such a way that it is powerful and impactful, like summons have always been in the FF series. He didnt want everyone running around with their own primal on a leash because it would cheapen the importance and intimidation of the power the primals have.

Instead he has the essence of the primal as an Egi that can be used as a pet, just a fraction of the power that a primal contains. Later on he will introduce the Free Company Primal Summoning system where only one Free Company will have access to summon the primal at a time which is earned through defeating it in the open world (mush like how Odin is now). then for a one shot use, the Free Company will be able to call upon the full power of the primal to use against their foes. "Everyone on the server will know Ifrit has been used, the skies will darken and turn red signifying that the primal is once again set loose upon the world to once again be reclaimed."

Little detail has been released regarding this to date. It would be really nice if Yoshi-P could mention the FC Primal Summoning stuff again, for all the new players who may not have been following every tidbit of information since 1.0 was released.

Rest assured, the Summoner is not complete and it will have more of an impact than what you are asking for.

[Nictuswolf]

Egis are just terrible, the only one that even looks "close" to their original primal is titan.

FFXI had a great summon system, they are not huge but not super small either. They also look the same.

[Seraphi]

It's for the best. With the current summoning system, you don't drain mana having monsters summoned and floating around. It would get really old really quickly seeing full primal models floating around everywhere.

I guess they could re-use the bloodpact system. Supercharge your Egi, resulting in a full primal model (scaled down), which rapidly drains your mana but boosts summon damage.

I'm not an ideas person, so w/e.

Bloodpact idea would be cool. Just a temporary buff to whatever, that also changes the model/scale.

Also, I never really got tired of seeing Fenrir running around in FFXI Then again when I played, Fenrir was apparently the most sought after summon and it was somewhat rare to actually see one. I'm sure things changed after I stopped playing.

[IzumiRaito]

I would suggest that during the red summon buff (spur i think it was) egis should change shape so that they more resemble the original primal, just chibi version.