Good direction with SMN!

[dinnertime]

They can keep Egi lore as it is but function as a lesser version of Demi if lore is really that important. Temporary summons you use during Demi summon downtime, no requirements to summon them like Bahamut or Phoenix. They share the same mechanics and buttons.

I really hope they blend both pets into a single interface because it personally bothers me how we need two separate buttons for Egi and Demi commands.
Still, they need to fix the annoying pet ghosting and very short distance limit between the caster and summon for temporary summons to move forward.

[Taranok]

They can keep Egi lore as it is but function as a lesser version of Demi if lore is really that important. Temporary summons you use during Demi summon downtime, no requirements to summon them like Bahamut or Phoenix. They share the same mechanics and buttons.

I really hope they blend both pets into a single interface because it personally bothers me how we need two separate buttons for Egi and Demi commands.
Still, they need to fix the annoying pet ghosting and very short distance limit between the caster and summon for temporary summons to move forward.

My idea was to just make the carbuncles and egis low-level trances that slowly replaced each other as you level up. So you start with Carbuncles as ARC, graduate from those to egis, from egis to demis of the same primals, and eventually to the powerful demis like Bahamut and Phoenix. In some future they could be further upgraded into Ultima or Alexander (assuming Ultima even is a primal), or Odin or Shinryu. Or if we're feeling fancy, the place that shall not be named.

Then mix in a splattering of oGCD and GCD abilities that partially summon these things and the class will feel a lot better.