Quote Originally Posted by Talraen View Post
All these "no egi" class ideas sound cool but... why would they change a working class so fundamentally like that?
Why would they? Because currently, the pet is a mighty small fraction of the SMN's damage output. Probably the greatest contribution the Egi has to a SMN's DPS output is Contagion, and that could just as easily be a job ability rather than a pet ability. A SMN can work perfectly well without their pet being summoned, and in fact may not notice for quite a while if it has died. That's how little impact the Egi has on a SMN's job.

However, they likely WON'T make this change. It would require a lot of rework to do. If SMN doesn't have any pets, what does it do with the Summon abilities it inherited from ACN? Remove them from ACN as well? Then how does SCH get their fairies? I'm sure anyone could rattle off a plan for changing SMN that takes ACN and SCH into account - but that brings us to the main reason it won't happen, and that's that it doesn't NEED to. SMN works perfectly fine how it is - it is a powerful damage dealer. Nobody's unhappy with the amount of hurt SMN is able to put out, so it's fulfilling its job role just fine. The complaints people have are aesthetic; "I don't like how Egis look!" or "Egis should be bigger!" or "Egis should deal a greater proportion of the SMN's damage!"

SE, after much development time, has worked in a solution for "I don't like how Egis look!", but look at how long that took. Egi glamours are a drop in the bucket compared to an overhaul of SMN's very functionality. I'm not gonna hold my breath.