Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
Welp, can't edit my recent post on mobile but anyway, I never really had much problem with Garuda-egi's look aside from it being small that it looks puny.
Pretty much all the egis look puny and pitiful because of their size but I understand why they went with so to avoid disrupting someone's view, and made them glow so people can spot them more easily, but still I think it wouldn't hurt to make them more bigger and more detailed.
And for why it doesn't feel like a Summoner, it's because it borrows Arcanist skills or rather the other way around so this is pretty much a lore thing. In past FF games, Summoners can use black magic anyway like Bio etc. which are the DoTs here so they have much right to be called a Summoner.
You say you understand why they were made unobtrusive, then say it "wouldn't hurt to make them bigger and more detailed". I myself don't play SMN but I do have to party with them and I say an unequivocal no thank you to bigger egis. If SE can do something with the design and leave it with the same impact on system resources and visual field that it has now, cool. If not, then it would hurt other players' ability to see and react to what's going on around them and it should be left well enough alone. If we had ridiculously huge summons like XI did coupled with XIV's playstyle, you can bet I'd block SMN off the caster slot for raid PF's. It's bad enough right now trying to get SMN to place their pets correctly, much less if the damn pet was forty feet tall.