Quote Originally Posted by Zarkovitch View Post
They need to make carbuncle a thing who appears few secs and vanish like some sort of esteem or make it turret mode and do nothing use his abilities whenever I summon things. I hate to see my pet vanish whenever i put him somewhere and reappeared close to me due to summon titan,ifrit,garuda,bahamut,phoenix. I cannot use is abilities because there a other pet summoning. It really bad design. Carbuncle should be low level to pet to use abilities. End of story.
This is the primary point I’ve wanted people to understand since the reveal but I understand that when I put the wall of text explaining why that’s the case people don’t think I’m sane.

Still gonna do it though.

Yes. The Resummons are Bad. And make everything else in the rotation worse. It’s not the fault of SE’s animation work, it’s literally an engine problem that cannot be solved. And it’s not because pet AI sucks. Spawning new entities and then removing them constantly is going to cause netcode problems and eats up time that could be spent utilizing the pets themselves. Which is why they feel like they show up from nowhere and do nothing even when you summoned them. Because it happens too late to even register properly.

The only broad point solution to this that I can see being reasonable is making Summons appear as part of Carbuncle and/or the player’s spell animations themselves.

The only other caveat I’d add to that is SE should make it feel like we are casting these avatars. Whether that’s through actual cast times (Titan specifically, but any really), TCJ/Flamethrower (Garuda’s Slipstream comes to mind here), or forced movement (Ifrit Charges). Force us to stand still to use them so there’s less of a disconnect between our input and their output and it feels like an actual mage instead of a ranged DPS.

This is also why I want to Summon them less, too. I want them to be meaningful when we use them, not use them all the time. The track they took was rushed and off, and I can wait till 7.0 to see them fix it.