Quote Originally Posted by Exodus-E View Post
I won't deny that it took me a bit to get used to.

But still, you gotta admit that Earthen Armor is a very good "replacement" of sorts.
It alone has saved/helped me plenty of times early on in 5.0.

That said, having a separate pet just for that action alone is unnecessary nowadays.
They could've just made it an Aetherpact-based action and repurposed Titan-Egi as an Egi Glamour skin...
Earthen Armor is just a generic Shield and having all Pets immortal makes the Job incredibly unflexible. If executed properly, killable egis/demi summons would allow SMN not only to micromanage with say, egi and demi summons, it would also allow the SMN, Grimoire-M stated already, to allow to use his summons as a "extension" of his range of influence with abilities which can be a very useful thing if executed properly. It would also grant alot of Room for design since there is ALOT if stuff you can do, just by having killable "pets" again.

I fail to see why the current Earthen Armor, which is just a generic Shield should be any better than having Titan itself tank for you.