By pity Square Enix, redesign Garuda-Egi

[YakushiHinata]

My guess... PS3/4 resource limitations..

But I still hope for more detailed Egi looks, even lore wise it would make more sense as the summoner grow and becomes more potent with aether manipulation they would be able to draw forth a more "complete" essence of the primal, Koji Fox, I am looking at you!

As for Egi glamour... "Please look forward to it, hai!"

[AstralKaos]

Forget redesigning Garuda. Just allow me to glamour Carbuncle onto all them. ;-;

This, too.

Can't tell you how sad I was when I did the first SMN quest that you get an Egi from, seeing that Carbuncle be replaced by them things is more upsetting to me than any "sad" moment in the story. It was truly the greatest loss the WoL has felt so far.

Making egis more detailed is just asking for older systems to crap themselves trying to render 30 SMN's in town.

Having a different texture is such a small change, if the game can handle minion's running around then that'll be no different.

Here, I'll paint it for you:

Ifrit can have the same texture as the Ifrit minion.

Titan can share the texture of the Gravel Golem minion, recolored.

Garuda can use recolored textures from the Griffin or a mixture of different cloudkin minions and some scaled minion.

[Lithe]

I wouldn't mind a Mogstore Garuda alternative

NO MOGSTORE! Stop pushing all this to cash shop! I don't want to pay to make my pets look better because the devs were lazy to begin with. The pets should have been rejected from the start as they look like a 9 year olds art project...I don't understand how they make cute carbies and nice fairies, then stick smn with those things. bleh.

[Kupocoubo]

You have to take into account the plethora of people that play this game on low end PC's and PS3's.

So we can get absolutly magnificent armors, weapons, mounts et cetera BUT forget about egis, the ps3 can't make them better !
Just lol, what an excuse !
What's next ? No other playable race because ps3 limitation ?

[Kupocoubo]

For people who summon the lore argument : isn't it contradictory that we can summon Ifrit, Garuda and Titan egis but we can't summon Ramuh, Shiva, Leviathan etc event though we have already defeated them ? How is that plausible, lore-wise ? So we can only summon three egis but not the others ? What is the logic behind that ?

[Erudito]

For people who summon the lore argument : isn't it contradictory that we can summon Ifrit, Garuda and Titan egis but we can't summon the rest we have already defeated? How is that plausible? So we can only summon three egis but not the others ? What is the logic behind that ?

Lore wise, and if I remember what Y'mitra said correctly, a summoner can only be attuned with 3 primal/egis at a time. This, however, leave a little loophole that will be used for the future egi glamours. It says only 3 at a time, but that means that, as long as we don't try to attune with a 4th, we can switch with any 3 primal/egis we have defeated before.

At least, that is what makes the most sense lore wise with regards to the egi glamours that are coming eventually.

If you have to ask, why only 3, its because more would cause lots of shenanigans to the summoners health and aether levels and whatnot.

On a side note: Warring Triad egis for 4.0 please!

[MugenMugetsu]

How can we use PS3/low-end PC limitations as an excuse for not getting new Egis, Egi glamours, or better looking Egis? Look at the summons on FFXI. They look exactly like their primal/eikon counterpart and they follow you around. Didn't matter if there were a bajillion summoners around with their summons out. No one's PS2 exploded. ( ~.ø)b

Just some examples....

[Berethos]

For people who summon the lore argument : isn't it contradictory that we can summon Ifrit, Garuda and Titan egis but we can't summon Ramuh, Shiva, Leviathan etc event though we have already defeated them ? How is that plausible, lore-wise ? So we can only summon three egis but not the others ? What is the logic behind that ?

Strictly speaking, it is possible lore-wise (as far as I know), with the only one not possible is an egi based on Bahamut (instead it manifests as an ability/spell similar to one he used) as it would take too much aether to do so.

So long as the summoner has come into contact with some of aetheric essence of a primal, they can summon the egi form of it. For the others like Shiva and Ramuh, we just haven't gotten around to doing it. The lore behind why they aren't just mini versions, though, is more an incidental thing and that if they did look like the primals they come from then people would freak out about it.

So it's more a case of they shouldn't look too much like their respective primals, not that they can't...

That being said, there's no lore reason they can't look better than they do right now.

[Kupocoubo]

Lore wise, and if I remember what Y'mitra said correctly, a summoner can only be attuned with 3 primal/egis at a time. This, however, leave a little loophole that will be used for the future egi glamours. It says only 3 at a time, but that means that, as long as we don't try to attune with a 4th, we can switch with any 3 primal/egis we have defeated before.

At least, that is what makes the most sense lore wise with regards to the egi glamours that are coming eventually.

If you have to ask, why only 3, its because more would cause lots of shenanigans to the summoners health and aether levels and whatnot.

On a side note: Warring Triad egis for 4.0 please!

I would happily abandon Ifrit, Garud and Titan egis for Bahamut, Shiva and Leviathan


"On a side note: Warring Triad egis for 4.0 please! "

OMGG this !!

[Berethos]

Lore wise, and if I remember what Y'mitra said correctly, a summoner can only be attuned with 3 primal/egis at a time.

Leave it to me to forget parts of the Summoner class quests...usually I'm pretty good about remembering that stuff, but the limitation in the lore completely escaped my memory.

And yeah, Egi based on the Warring Triad would be awesome.