Leviathan-Egi: What's its role going to be...?

[Alberel]

YoshiP said no new egis til a level cap increase. He also said there would be a level cap increase when he adds new classes/jobs and that at least one will be released BEFORE the first expansion so that would imply we'll see level 55 and a new egi before 3.0. Considering that Shiva and Ramuh will be released in 2.3 though... we could get any of those as our next egi. Ramuh's egi model was found in the client by .dat miners which tells me Ramuh is the most likely candidate for our next egi. He looks awesome btw!

I'm in agreement that for Leviathan to be viable we're going to need a complete rework of the current egis though.

Ifrit needs a gap closer and a more powerful auto-attack (risk vs reward dictates melee should always do more damage than range due to risk of death and movement requirements but currently ifrit does less than garuda due to his animation lock), he also needs a new 4th skill that interacts with the summoner in a way that contagion does.

Leviathan would make the most sense as an AOE pet as several others have suggested. An AOE auto-attack that is slightly weaker than Ifrit's or Garuda's but does considerably more in total against multiple targets. The suggestion made by someone else to have his 4th skill buff bane's number of affected targets is really great actually!