Adding fuel to the fire, Summoner's future

[Spellbinder]

-They have acknowledged the problem and will likely change it soon.

Assuming you're referring to spell speed and pets...

Greetings,

By design, pets aren't affected by their master’s spell speed, and there aren't plans to change that at this time. The benefits of the trait Enhanced Pet Actions apply to the master, and will not apply a spell speed bonus to your pet.

As for Ifrit, more often than not, I hear the caveat of "well, when there's a warrior or monk in the party..." as to the reason for why Ifrit can edge out Garuda in a handful of situations. We shouldn't need help from other Jobs to give incentive to change between the different Egi. I shudder to think what will happen when we have more of them if a better balance isn't struck.

It's probably strange but I'm going to use pokemon as an example to explain my ideas for the future to come. Right now Ifrit egi is in every way a Charmander, a pre-evolved pokemon. Titan is close to a Geodude, and Garuda is similar to a Pidgey, even in their abilities they can be compared, and I'm guessing when they are added Leviathan will be a Squirtle and Ramuh a Pikachu. As the level cap grows, I'm hoping our summoners abilities will grow too, lore-wise I mean, to take on the giant dragons/other big baddies coming our way. To me, it would be pretty silly to take on one of those legendary Pokemon with a CHARMANDER, so as the summoners become more powerful, they would become able to extract larger amounts of essence from the primals, and essentially, we could have evolved forms of the egis we have now, with stronger abilities and forms. No not HUGE primals, still referencing Pokemon here, the final evolved form of Charmander is still only about the height of a human.

I've heard the idea of "evolution" floated around several times since the game's release. And while I do find the idea interesting, I also recall a reply from the forum reps stating that the developers have no intentions of allowing our Egi to "grow" or change at any point in the future, and that they would take our feedback into consideration when designing new ones (although I doubt it).