Why are mounts so pretty and egi's so bad?

[Teslo]

When I first started playing I saw the Egi's and thought "This can't be right. Those lumps of poo are the Summoner pets? Must be a bug." I immediately reported the appearance of the Egi's as a bug. Now I know it's not a bug. But they still look like poo.

Quoted for truth from the poster below me.

/sigh, I really miss the avatars from FFXI. Loved playing summoner in the final fantasy games until XIV... This egi thing just destroys my soul.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

/sigh, I really miss the avatars from FFXI. Loved playing summoner in the final fantasy games until XIV... This egi thing just destroys my soul.

[DNO]

Wow all I am saying is SE said they do not want to add crazy detail to egi's cause of the fact that 100s can be in the screen at one time..... Then we get hunts added to the game and guess what.... 100s of mounts on the screen that are far more detailed than egi's... It's just silly that's all.

[Higashikata]

oh hey, this thread again.

[Koldhara]

The summons in this game are by far the most disappointing thing i can point out hands down. Even though summoner is my primary job, given i love pet based classes, i do not like them at all. I will not bother with pet Glamours if they are nothing more than a color change.

while we're at it, can we make pets go passive on mount so that we don't have to re-summon them every time we aggro something and we're still traveling?

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

They forgot to rename the class "warlock" when they sent it out.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Titan? I don't have any titan egi, or maybe you are referring to "Flying Chicken-nugget"?

[elemental10]

Oh look, it's this-

thread again.

Beat me to it.

Anyways, the egis will probably get a revamp (model-wise) when the egi glamours come. Patience, my children. The SE police have heard you and they're doing something about it.

[Ninja-Mage]

Wow all I am saying is SE said they do not want to add crazy detail to egi's cause of the fact that 100s can be in the screen at one time..... Then we get hunts added to the game and guess what.... 100s of mounts on the screen that are far more detailed than egi's... It's just silly that's all.

Not that I don't agree with you on the issue - a point could be made that those 100's of mounts on screen do cause quite a bit of problem in fates. More then a few have I been in where Odin or what ever that Coeurl king is called just disappear due to the sheer amount of people on screen. But I mean counter-argument is that this situation rarely ever happens in average gameplay. In raids you'll likely only see one or 2 pets out. So the idea that we can't have ultra-detailed summons is just stupid to me.

[Nestama]

Then we get hunts added to the game and guess what.... 100s of mounts on the screen that are far more detailed than egi's... It's just silly that's all.

And then the mounts disappear when you get off of them. Egi's however, do not disappear.