My Concerns/Ideas for the Pet Glamour System

[OvernightSiren]

Probably my last bump, was kinda hoping for a random dev comment to shed some light on this, but I guess it's not Christmas in July after all. ;(

[DarkStar]

Oh don't worry. Even if this particular thread dies, there'll be another one like it up in a few days, most likely.

As far as my thoughts on the subject, I personally think they'll make it so we can glamour any egi to any role, possibly just make it so each time you glamour you have to spend a special item you'd get through Centurio or Grand Company seals. Like, I dunno, 400 Centurio seals (40k with GC Seals) for one glamour item, and the initial quest to unlock Egi Glamours gives you three of them for free, so you can switch up all three of your egis at the start if you so desire.

As far as actually unlocking it, I think it'll be a quest from the job NPC, talking about how they'd been poring over some old allagan texts or whatever and discovered a new ritual, something something aetherial manipulation something elemental conversion something something something go fight Egi versions of the other four storyline 2.X primals. Yes, that's right, 4. King Mog is a primal, and who wouldn't want to have a Moggle Mog-Egi? >w>

[DukeBurden]

Probably my last bump, was kinda hoping for a random dev comment to shed some light on this, but I guess it's not Christmas in July after all. ;(

bump, bump, bump-bump IT UP! *drops a beat*

[Tonkra]

this is totally horrid what they do with the summoner job.. fact: this isnt a Final fantasy summoner AT ALL.

i thought they implement a glamour system for having better looking pets instead of those flying eggs.

but it is going to be implemented for just having different egi skins out for each role?! It just shows that SE is unable to implement more than 3 pets that actually matter....seems like the FFXIV dev team got brainwashed by WoW...

i think im going to reactivate my old FFXI account to play a real Summoner. too bad that the game system itself is a little outdated these days

[OvernightSiren]

this is totally horrid what they do with the summoner job.. fact: this isnt a Final fantasy summoner AT ALL.

I'm not a huge fan of the way SMN plays in this game either, but to be honest FFXI's summoner wasn't much like classic summoners. To be more like an ACTUAL classic summoner, the class should have all their basic spells themed after summons (like the new Dreadwyrm Stance summoners get). In classic FF games, when a Summoner summons something it just does one attack--it doesn't stay around for a while (except in X, XI, XII and XIII).

For FFXIV, Summoner feels kinda lame thematically though. IMO they should have either made it a strictly pet class OR made it a class that uses attacks themed after summons--not both. I say "not both" because right now we have too little of both of those ideas. We only have 3 pets, and only one spell that's themed after a summon. Also Summoner as a DoT/Poison class always struck me as odd too.

[Svalitz]

My concern is that rather than actually fix everything that is wrong with the SMN job they are throwing this option at us and like fools we're eating it up and will be buying it from the cash shop.


MY BROTHERS. LET US BAND TOGETHER AND FIGHT FOR A BETTER SUMMONER.

[OvernightSiren]

My concern is that rather than actually fix everything that is wrong with the SMN job they are throwing this option at us and like fools we're eating it up and will be buying it from the cash shop.


MY BROTHERS. LET US BAND TOGETHER AND FIGHT FOR A BETTER SUMMONER.

There's nothing wrong with Summoner now though. They're the undisputed kings of AoE right now and their single target is very good as well.

[Neela]

I would like to get a glamour system as well but just for primals (& carfuncles) but not for minions... that wouldnt make sense at all... we are summoners not the muppetshow

There are still more than enough and every major update will bring us new primals as well. Ifrit could use melee-like primals like Odin, Gilgamesh or Ravana. Titan could get fat-ones skins like Bismarck or even Gilgamesh too. Garuda should get all the magical ones like Shiva, Ramuh, Levi & King Mog.

It would be funny if u would have to gather primal-tokens for glamour dropping by the primal u want to glamour f.e. kill Ravana Ex for 1 Ravana glamour token which lasts for uhm lets say 24hs? Oh as easteregg u could spend all tokens of all primals at once for a Bahamut-glamour that fits all three Egis – now that would be cool :P

Im really waiting to see how that system will turn out :3



so long
Neela

[BreathlessTao]

My concern is that I'm not even interested anymore. Been maining SMN since 2.0, and for a while with the then-new primals, I was excited. Then with each new patch there was no word about anything being done, and then the last bit of info being they haven't even gotten started on it (despite the pet glamour system in itself having been thrown in as a "gonna happen" solution), even though we've left those old primals behind months ago and are now on our way to 3.1 even... MEH. I just lost interest. I can't be bothered to pay attention to it, to want it, to anticpate it. Like so many other aspects of the game - 'too little, too late'. Will it be nice if it finally happens? Reaction-answer would be "yes", but with the experiences so far, I'm more apprehensive and so I have to say 'they'll probably mix something into it that'll make it a pain in the neck'. :|

[odintius]

I hoping they consider sch pet to be also included with the system IMO.