Egi Glamours

[Nalien]

Can we see an update on this finally? Even just a word that it's still a thing that's being done? I've been waiting since 2.x for a Leviathan/Ramuh/Shiva Egi...

I find the "It's not a priority because it's only something for Summoner" line of argument the developers gave us in the past to be a fairly weak one now, given Bard sees damn near consistent updates to Performance. This, for example, looks like a fairly great and in depth addition for Performance, with new assets and systems to help improve a Bard only feature... Meanwhile Ramuh-Egi assets have been in the game since 2.3 and it's too much work to let us access them because it's "only for Summoner"? Come on...

[grinkdaboy]

small indie company, please look forward to it

[Kemiko]

Anyone remember back in 2015 when they announced the difficulty of extra Egu's because of the trinity system they locked themselves with the egi's and they were developing a glamour system for the egi's so Summoners can still expand their egi's in at least appearance since the job has a focus on the player?

I hope the Carbuncle glamour wasn't what they meant.

[Nalien]

I hope the Carbuncle glamour wasn't what they meant.

Same, not least of which because the implementation of which is really rather horrid... A text command? Again, look at all the UI polish Performance gets. Effort clearly went into that, it's quite clearly a passion project for someone on the development team. Summoner not so much, both fill the same space as completely fluff non-content specific to a single Job, yet Bard gets update after update thrown at Performance, while Egi-Glamours is long forgotten by the dev team.

I don't even want much out of Egi Glamours. They could certainly give us an Egi for every Primal (some, like Ramuh and Sephirot already have Egi incorporated in their Trials), but really I just want the main six. A Final Fantasy Summoner that cannot summon Shiva (usually one of, if not the first Summon you get access to) is frankly kind of sad. Ideally I'd like to be able to have any of those summons be any of the pet types (so, for example, Ifrit-Egi for the caster-type pet), but I'd even settle for having Ifrit or Shiva for melee-type, Garuda or Ramuh for caster-type, Titan or Leviathan for support-type at this point... Just give me something... Ramuh-Egi is already there from the Ramuh Trial, caster-type pet animation are by far the most basic, I'm fairly sure the only work that needs to go into giving us a Ramuh-Egi as a caster-type pet is setting up his abilities and just reusing the animations from the Ramuh Trial, then letting us use the lame text command to swap to him... All these years and that's still too much though... Shiva-Egi and Leviathan-Egi, OK, those require models and animations to be made, that's a bigger workload, but all the parts for a Ramuh-Egi have been here since 2.3, just waiting to be assembled...

[Brightshadow]

It Would be nice if we got more egi glamours, heck they could even add the glamours as a drop scroll/item for the extreme primals to give even more reason to farm them. I would love a tsukuyomi egi.

Of course it would be only for the appearance of our egi's nothing performance based.

[CrimsonGunner]

It Would be nice if we got more egi glamours, heck they could even add the glamours as a drop scroll/item for the extreme primals to give even more reason to farm them. I would love a tsukuyomi egi.

Of course it would be only for the appearance of our egi's nothing performance based.

that sound horrible,imagine farming 50+ times the primal you want only in the end to get a chance to obtain it but it is snatched from you by another member.
i think the egi glamour should be quest-bound not drop item,only after you complete a quest/duty you unlock the egi or unlocked only after you fight the primal in the MSQ part.

[Shougun]

I wonder if one of the reasons for the big delay is that they're still trying to figure where Summoner stands, and they want to get to that point before they start releasing a bunch of cosmetics they might have to withdraw or entirely reconfigure later.

that sound horrible,imagine farming 50+ times the primal you want only in the end to get a chance to obtain it but it is snatched from you by another member.
i think the egi glamour should be quest-bound not drop item,only after you complete a quest/duty you unlock the egi or unlocked only after you fight the primal in the MSQ part.

Yeah, I'd like quest bound concept. I'd like to encourage the FFXI / FFX sort of vision of it all, so the Summoner could go on a great pilgrimage to unlock these other egi-glamour. Ideally, imo, some of these options are like Ifrit-Egi+1- where SE gets closer to that sweet Demi look.

Maybe something like that Zelda quest in WoW lol (fairly long world spanning quest with elements of "figure it out yourself").

[DenzelVilliers]

I want our Minions as Egi-Glamours, would be fun and there's a lot variety to chose.

[dinnertime]

Honestly I don't think they're planning on working on it anymore, but they should still tell us either way. Still waiting for my white carbuncle though.

Also BRD Performance isn't so comparable to Egi Glamours when the latter takes up more resources. Unique models, unique animations and unique particle effects for each Egi, while Performance is just music notes with the same repetitive playing animation slapped onto it, hence why there's frequent updates to it.

[Kokonji]

Honestly I don't think they're planning on working on it anymore, but they should still tell us either way. Still waiting for my white carbuncle though.

Also BRD Performance isn't so comparable to Egi Glamours when the latter takes up more resources. Unique models, unique animations and unique particle effects for each Egi, while Performance is just music notes with the same repetitive playing animation slapped onto it, hence why there's frequent updates to it.

Apparently creating another egi-glamour and make them accessible to player is too hard for SE (far harder than creating a completely new system specifically designed for bard's performance) despite we already see another carbuncle with different color used by npc...?
who knows...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯