Thank you Square Enix! Carbuncles to come back :D

[Elim]

What do you mean by "reunited once more"? I hope that doesn't mean I have to use carbuncle instead of my fairy. That will be a very sad day.

[Lemuria]

What do you mean by "reunited once more"? I hope that doesn't mean I have to use carbuncle instead of my fairy. That will be a very sad day.

Not exactly. They're planning on introducing what amounts to 'glamors' for summoned creatures. This means that instead of using Garuda-Egi, you could choose to summon a Carbuncle with the same skills instead. It does nothing to the abilities you have, it's just for show.

Now if only they could put the same level of attention into the actual usefulness of Egi-summons, maybe we'd be getting somewhere.

[Kathryn]

I don't play smn but I do wish they'd have gotten some new summons. I'm tired of Garuda being everywhere as far as most raid content goes. Leviathan and Ramuh egi though <3. Anyway, grats carby lovers. They're baaaaack!

Maybe they'll give them Lavi and Ramuh glamours because at the end of the day it's all a SMN really needs as they have all damage sources alrdy Tank/Melee DPS/Range DPS so all they need is to add more skin's hey Presto.

Though in honesty with this community that's not good enough.

[AlexiosCalisthenes]

What do you mean by "reunited once more"? I hope that doesn't mean I have to use carbuncle instead of my fairy. That will be a very sad day.

Oh not to worry, it's basically an optional glamour-sort of system option, where you can mask egis with carbuncles. This doesn't apply to scholars, only summoners.

Caveat though, this was mentioned in passing but I'm very certain it was mentioned for summoner - seeing as how they do not have to edit animations any further. However for scholars, would involve introduction of animations for carbuncles healing, so I doubt it's going to be implemented. All in all, it's a masking, glamour system, so since you're not a fan of them carbuncles, you don't have to worry