Future summons for Summoner??

[JackFross]

Well, a new egi is possible in the future -

the level 50-60 SMN quests do in fact refer to an egi version of Ramuh and your character is actually instructed early on in the new Job quests by Y'hmitra to evoke him,... but you fail miserably. She then realized why you can't summon him - evoking an egi requires large amounts of aether sourced from the summoner, and at your character's current state (read: class/Job level), you simply don't have enough aether in your body to evoke him.

I read this whole situation to be more of "any given person only has so much Aetheric capacity, and yours is precisely three egis." Most people can barely manage one. It'll likely be in the next expansion, with Y'hmitra having discovered a means of evoking new egis, but having to replace the old ones in your Aetheric loadout, so to speak. So basically you'd choose between a handful of different "skins" for each of the Egis, cycled through via Y'hmitra or some other NPC as you wish.

That's the way that'd make the most sense to me, both from a balance perspective and lore perspective, as established by the Summoner quest line.

You could have Ramuh/Garuda/Shiva for caster, Leviathan/Ifrit/Ravana for melee, Mog/Titan/Bismarck for tank, for instance. I could see it working, and having them release new SMN sidequests with new Primal releases (or even staggering these skins, since each would be a new model, new animations, new (though identical) skills) to go face off against the Egi and earn the right to summon it. It would create a bunch of variety in Summoners, at least, seeing different Summoners with different Egi preferences.


However, going forward, I also wouldn't be surprised for them to delve deeper into the "Trance" lore established in this expansion, rather than treading the Egi ground all over again.

Alexander Trance pls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbArvIqZzkI