Summoner Tanking Pet

[CorbinDallas]

I dunno, it felt natural to me being a caster that I would use a tank pet while soloing. All the other DPS pets came out in dungeons/trials/Eureka depending on the situations and the boss. Titan is the pet I used by far the most while leveling.

No other job has a pocket tank for solo activities, SMN doesn't need one either.

[Daralii]

No other job has a pocket tank for solo activities, SMN doesn't need one either.

Especially now that it actually has a defensive cooldown.

[Rongway]

You could have used Ifrit and killed things significantly faster.

No other job has a pocket tank for solo activities, SMN doesn't need one either.

This, though. SMNs are DDs. The answer is always "kill it faster."

[Allegor]

Even using both Diversion and Lucid, Titan was never able to hold hate even to the lowest level FATE mobs - the chocobo is a far more reliant tank than the nugget, so good riddance I say.

[Hasrat]

This, though. SMNs are DDs. The answer is always "kill it faster."

I don't disagree with this line of reasoning, and yeah, it almost seems like that's the direction this is meant to push SMN. But. It also causes me to wonder if this could be the first steps towards removing the heal/raise abilities from SMN. You'll no longer be able to justify a piddly Physick for keeping your pet alive. Raise may be harder to remove, due to synced down SCH.

Unfortunately, with RDM sharing that utility (and doing it better), it does also seem like it'd be unfair to remove that functionality from SMN.

Also reading the job guide, I guess Everlasting Flight puts that concern to rest. Extra healing utility there.

While I'm there, Emerald also brings up some worries for me. Spells are all AoE. I can see it already, fresh Arcanists catching aggro off of mobs they didn't intend.

[EmeraldDawn]

The carbuncle is a glamour but when I read the the new updates on SMN pets it looks like if I use the carbuncle glamour then my pet will do less damage. I guess I'll know when I play but I was just curious.

[Rongway]

The carbuncle is a glamour but when I read the the new updates on SMN pets it looks like if I use the carbuncle glamour then my pet will do less damage. I guess I'll know when I play but I was just curious.

The carbuncles have stats and actions with lower potencies because of ACN. Egi-glamoured carbuncles aren’t carbuncles; they’re egis playing dress up.

[RitsukoSonoda]

The carbuncles have stats and actions with lower potencies because of ACN. Egi-glamoured carbuncles aren’t carbuncles; they’re egis playing dress up.

And then Kirin is fought on lightsday and summons carbuncle which then does searing light and wipes your linkshell as vengeance for all the times people sent the lovable puffball to its doom...

That was one of the funniest things I'd seen in sky in ffxi :P

[Vidu]

Not exactly a "niche" considering how much of this game is designed around soloing and that hopefully everyone is doing their job-quests.

My point was: how many jobquests with an instances in which you can and want to tank something with Titan-Egi instead of killing it faster (or the damn thing just not having an aggrotable) are/were there - and how many dungeons, raids, trials etc. are you doing, in which you dont want to use Titan-Egi?

While I agree that job-quests are an important part of not only playing your job (please do them, folks) and the game, in total gametime they still some short compared to dungeons (unless someone only levels their summoner through hunt-marks, I guess...)

For everyone who used their Egi for tanking mobs in the open world: you still have a real chicken to do that for you.

[KokonoeAiyoko]

No other job has a pocket tank for solo activities, SMN doesn't need one either.

God forbid classes actually be unique from each other.