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

[Evangela]

SE shouldn't limit summoner job to the lore.

why don't let summoners summon something from other dimension and call them Aeon, Eidolon, Esper, or whatever, instead of limiting this job to the Primals and the lore of this game.

[HexWeaver]

SE shouldn't limit summoner job to the lore.

why don't let summoners summon something from other dimension and call them Aeon, Eidolon, Esper, or whatever, instead of limiting this job to the Primals and the lore of this game.

Cuz a lot of us summoners like the lore? I like our pets being connected to one of the games main group of antagonists, savage gods of destruction.
To me, gives our job a forbidden feel which is what first drew me to it. We'll be getting the pet glamour system soon and everything will be fine. /soothe

[Nestama]

SE shouldn't limit summoner job to the lore.

why don't let summoners summon something from other dimension and call them Aeon, Eidolon, Esper, or whatever, instead of limiting this job to the Primals and the lore of this game.

Because then every other Job in the game would need to be given the same treatment (break lore, as you are willing to do). Anyway, Summons in previous Final Fantasy games are pretty much a flashier Black Mage spell or a Limit Break that costs MP. What you're asking for can not work in FFXIV (and FFXI's way of SMN makes the player have nothing, while the pet gets everything. Turn Sic on and you can just run around while your pet does all the work) and a big summon on the screen can cause issues during AoE heavy fights ("sorry, I couldn't see I had the marker over my head because Ifrit was on top of me!").

[Evangela]

I meant that they don't need to make our egis look like a glowing statues just because we cannot summon the real primals.

[Nestama]

They would still need to be small and their attacks not super flashy (Meteor and assumingly Megaflare LB's are probably still despised for how distracting they are), which would then probably make them worse than Egi's because "they don't feel powerful!" or something along those lines.

You have the choice to have a beast that's small and has visually weak looking attacks, or an Egi that looks right for its size and attacks that visually make sense.

[Evangela]

then stop making them small already. FFXI can have large sized summons and the PS2 doesn't have a problem with them.

[Nestama]

And then watch SMN's get excluded from parties because their pets are distracting (blocking view of AoE's, tethers, markers, etc).

[Evangela]

stop making grounded AoE too.

[Nestama]

So what you're saying is "FFXIV should be FFXI!" Because that's the only way your idea of Summoner will work.

[Tonkra]

And I just wish they were more glorified looking.

Well for those who havent played FFXI... even on PS2 the summoner avatars looked 10 times better.. we talk about PS2...




the apology that we are just able to draw the power of the primals .. that we cant summon them.. even in FFXI it was just like that.
What the FFXI summoner was able to summon wasnt the real huge primals.. it just have been reincarnations of that.

smaller versions of the primals with a shiny glow effect. why they didnt make it for FFXIV... dont know..


though the FFXIV carbuncle is okay.. the FFXI carbuncle was more "fluffy"




Carbuncle FFXI hah*

good times ^^