Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
A reskin feels like a cheap cop-out though, rather than a feature that a subscription game should have. They won't have any skills of their element (eg, Garuda reskinned as Shiva now uses wind blade... wtf?!) and we're still stuck with a pet which is barely pulling its own weight. I'd sooner they nuke my DPS almost entirely and give it to the pet. At least then I'd feel more like a 'summoner' and less like a babysitter teaching Garuda the ABCs.
I agree. A Glamour System for Egis is pretty lame.

I understand the challenge they're facing: After all, if Titan Egi is a Tank, Garuda Egi is Ranged / AOE, Ifrit Egi is Melee DPS, what do new Egis (Summons) do? How do they stand out?

But that's the case fundamentally with most "Attacks" for other Jobs (if you treat Egis like a variety of attacks); they make it work for all other DD jobs. They should be able to draw from their decades of experience on Summoner and create interesting Summons (Egis) that stand on their own, even if they are just different forms of just subtracting health from an enemy.

And lore-wise and just fundamentally, it's lame to have your Garuda Egi, but with a Glamoured "Skin" of, say, Leviathan on it. It's a cop-out.