Summoner's Egi need redesign in both form and function

[Akiza]

There is no Final Fantasy that lest Summoners summon the boss Primals usually it is a weaker version of the actual Primal or summon. There is nothing wrong with Summoners summoning the primals. The Egi's and Pet system does need to be redesigned to make them more balanced like Ifrit they need to get rid of radiant shield and give him Radiant Plume and Eruption. They also should make the Pets more detailed and look like the primal.

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

Ifrit they need to get rid of radiant shield and give him Radiant Plume and Eruption.

I agree with you and the OP. I wish each summon filled a more specific role. I was a fan of ifrit egi since I unlocked him but once
I realized his damage and utility paled in comparison to Garuda I stopped using him. I personally would like Garuda to fill a personal
support role (Enhancing your dots / spell speed etc) while Ifrit fills the offensive role (Higher base damage than Garuda) while titan
plays the CC tank role you mentioned.

[TouchandFeel]

There is no Final Fantasy that lest Summoners summon the boss Primals usually it is a weaker version of the actual Primal or summon.

That is actually how most of the FF games work with summons, you would summon the actual Summon/Esper/Whatever but they would only do one special attack and then go away, essentially functioning like a powerful spell with cool visuals. In FF4 you gained new summons by beating them in battle and therefore gaining the right to call upon them. In later iterations like FF6 and 7, you used the essence of the summons trapped in crystallized form to call them forth on your side. Similar fictionalizations of how summons worked persisted throughout most of the series.
The summon's attacks that are used when you call them up may not seem as strong as when you had to fight them, but that is most likely more for balance than anything else.

However the concept of calling forth the actual summon, or Primal, as they are called in this game doesn't work fictionally as the Primals are supposed to be ever-present big bad guys bent on destruction that you stop for a time but keep popping back up, so calling them in on your side wouldn't make sense and hence the Egi's.

On a completely different note, yeah I agree that they Egi's could use some tweaking both mechanics and visuals-wise.