RIP summoner

[Dement]

A pet job not getting any new pets in the expansion and you can't figure out why people are upset?

The outrage would ring less hollow if so many people hadn't spent the better part of 2 years bitching about the egi's in every conceivable way. You have a Summon to fill all of the roles the game offers at the moment so I'm not even really sure what SMNs were hoping for. So that Leviathan would replace Garuda and Shiva could replace Ifrit and Ramuh could replace Titan? Well good news! With an glamour system, now they can!

[Dyvid]

The outrage would ring less hollow if so many people hadn't spent the better part of 2 years bitching about the egi's in every conceivable way. You have a Summon to fill all of the roles the game offers at the moment so I'm not even really sure what SMNs were hoping for. So that Leviathan would replace Garuda and Shiva could replace Ifrit and Ramuh could replace Titan? Well good news! With an glamour system, now they can!

Actually I still need a pet that is straight AoE dps and one that is straight single target.

[AdamFyi]

Actually I still need a pet that is straight AoE dps and one that is straight single target.

Pet abilities were not even talked about extensively in the Live Letter. They only mentioned about adjusting them to make it so that not only one Egi gets used because it completely overshadows the others. So, please don't jump to conclusions until we get an official announcement or get the actual patch notes (which they are going to read out soon).

[Dyvid]

Pet abilities were not even talked about extensively in the Live Letter. They only mentioned about adjusting them to make it so that not only one Egi gets used because it completely overshadows the others. So, please don't jump to conclusions until we get an official announcement or get the actual patch notes (which they are going to read out soon).

"During development, we thought long and hard about this, but we will not be adding new egi at this time. Looking at the long-term, instead of adding more pets, we felt it better to give more use to the job by adding actions to summoner. However, I’m sure many are wondering if they will have to continue looking at the same egi forever, but we are planning to add a system in the future that will allow you to change the appearance of your egis, including Carbuncle, but their stats will remain the same. "

Doesn't mention anything about adding or reworking current egi pets. Just more actions to summoner.

[AdamFyi]

Doesn't mention anything about adding or reworking current egi pets. Just more actions to summoner.

You probably didn't get to watch the Live Letter, did you? There were more details talked about during the stream that the digest did not cover completely. It's missing a lot of small tidbits that were talked about over the stream.

[Lemuria]

You probably didn't get to watch the Live Letter, did you? There were more details talked about during the stream that the digest did not cover completely. It's missing a lot of small tidbits that were talked about over the stream.

Well.. I DID watch it. And I can assure you there was no mention of any new Egi skills. Doesn't mean there won't be any necessarily, but you'd think that would be a significant focus for a 'summoner' job.

[Tannlore]

More egi's isn't the answer we need now. I think what they are doing is the right thing. Is it disappointing? Sure, but this trance system is pretty snazy. Maybe we'll get more things through it.

[AdamFyi]

Well.. I DID watch it. And I can assure you there was no mention of any new Egi skills.

It was lightly talked about. You had to be paying attention really closely. There were other players watching the stream who noticed it. Again, they mentioned something akin to suggesting that they would rework the summons, not anything about new skills being added to the pets. Anyway, it's too early to jump to conclusions. They've only shown and explained some of the new abilities that will be introduced during Heavensward. They talked about adjustments to older skills as well, but tried avoiding it. Protect being able to cross-class the full buff was one of them that was mentioned. So don't get your panties in a knot.

But you'd think that would be a significant focus for a 'summoner' job.