(Extremely Gimped Iconic Summon) that is EGIS

[Tupsi]

Seriously I'm pretty annoyed at how often people think Egis are a lazy replacement for "muh awesome summon"

Look at the Egi Skills - They're essentially the same as their Carbuncle counterpart and yes, there's a carbuncle for EVERY egi that'll exist, whether we, as players, get them or not is debatable. Now look at the designs - Unless you're some masterful developer who defies all logic...how does:

1. Reskinning and changing a few values on skills
and
2. Using a minimalistic design

Not equal "lazy replacement"? The asset creation is less work than what they did with XI and all they did was scale down the summons and remove some of their aura effect.

Also nearly everything after 1.0 was Yoshi, as Tanaka didn't want classic FF jobs in the game.

Incorrect - When yoshida took over he said his first goal was to push out what Tanaka's team started, that included patches up to 1.19. 1.20 - 1.23 scenario and updates were his work. Tanaka wanted the traditional FF jobs in the game but he wanted to give us the ability to customize how we played them.

[Dyvid]

Incorrect - When yoshida took over he said his first goal was to push out what Tanaka's team started, that included patches up to 1.19. 1.20 - 1.23 scenario and updates were his work. Tanaka wanted the traditional FF jobs in the game but he wanted to give us the ability to customize how we played them.

That is incorrect, Tanaka wanted player to build their own job by mixing and matching skill. One good example was Thief were he told players to level pug, gla, and a few others to make a THF. Tanaka: In FFXIV we made it a point not to use the word “job” at all in the system. Gladiators and conjurers are “classes,” and the idea is to take abilities learned from these classes and put them together to create your own job. source