Please don't defile BST

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Demi-Bahamut is nothing but flaws. He's worse than egi's in every possible way.

His AI prioritizes moving even though he has the longest range of any player spell in the entire game. 100 yards. And yet he still still act like a braindead glitchpuppet and run towards you whenever possible.

This never happens with the other pets. Garuda will never move once she plants herself unless the target moves out of her range, which is considerably less than Bahamut. Ifrit and Titan likewise have no problems with chasing the Summoner randomly unless their current target happens to die. They do have problems with attacking and moving, but its significantly less of a problem than Bahamut. No one cares if Ifrit's Flaming Crush is 2 seconds late. Everyone cares about Ahk Morn being 2 seconds late.

He also has the hilarious problem of being inconsistently bad. Sometimes you push Enkindle Bahamut and it works. Sometimes it doesn't. There is no rhyme or reason to it. I've been standing next to the guy and the longest I've seen him ignore orders while spamming Wyrmwaves is five seconds. That is absurd when you have 6 1/2 seconds at most for the second Ahk Morn before he flies off and leaves you in the dirt.

Bahamut has to be forced to do anything. I do not understand how you can call this effectively a "one and done" when Bahamut literally warps your entire playstyle around his existence. You have to use ogcds and spam Ruin II to efficiently make the idiot attack. If you have to spend 20 seconds doing something that is completely different from your normal gameplay, that is not a "one-and-done." That is an entire phase of babysitting his awful AI.

I'm also amused you called egi's a glorified dot right after saying Bahamut is a one-and-done spell that deals continous damage over a period of time. So Bahamut is also a glorified dot? Because that's the same thing egis do: damage over time.

Plus no one with a brain is actually arguing for a literal 5 minute summon animation in an MMO. You know what they could have done? Had a short animation of summoning demi-bahamut and then your involvement is done. He can take w/e 5s to charge up a Megaflare and blast the boss before leaving. That would have been a one-and-done that's actually in line with what people claim to call the "real" summoner experience, and it splits the animation time between you and him so no one is left standing around waiting for too long.

Personally I also find his visual attacks to be a complete joke. Even the egi's are better. You can at least see the different animations between all of them. The only new thing Bahamut brings to Summoner is an air-hump that you can barely see half the time (and his eyes glow red, in case you want to be not looking at the boss for some reason). That's it. Ahk Morn is just a slightly bigger Deathflare, something I've had for years now. I can not think of a more boring execution than this. Where is all of the other unique effects he had in the fight? Where are Flare Breaths, Flatten, Megaflare, Teraflare, Flare Stars, Earthshakers, Tempest Wings, the list goes on and on. They settled on the minimum amount needed and it's boring imo.

Plus they keep trying to parade Bahamut around and it's lessening the effect of everything else in the kit. Why didn't they make the egi's better and give them more gameplay? They just wanted to dazzle people with a low effort summon. That's so much easier than actually making them cool. Why can't I use primal mechanics through the egis like they do in the Summoner trials? Ifrit has eruptions and infernal nails. Garuda has chirada and suparna. Titan could have had gaols as a defensive shield or something. There is so much space for Summoner to be a cool job and they're flushing all of it out to cram in more dargonmage.

Edit: To also stay on topic, I'll add: Don't defile puppetmaster either. I like my puppetry jobs in games. Make it a real job or don't waste your time.