Quote Originally Posted by SkyHighDN View Post
Maybe Leviathan comes in as a healing EGI....
The only way that would happen is if the devs actually wound up adding the hybrid role and decided that SMN should become a hybrid rather than a straight DPS. The situations you're describing are actually the explicit scenarios that the devs would have to implement in order to "require" hybrids, which is what Yoshi has said he wants to do (such that group comp would be 2 tanks, 2 healers, 2 DPS, and 2 hybrids). Until such time, SMN isn't going to get a healing pet because that's what SCHs are there for, not to mention that it would provide explicit utility that no other class could match (and existing Titan's utility is highly conditional since it requires he be around from the start because he doesn't have provoke and all DPS keep their enmity comparatively low since Titan doesn't really have impressive enmity gen; he's also only marginally more durable than an mDPS durable; he's really just there for soloing, much like MNK Fists of Earth).

Barring the inclusion of a hybrid role and the commensurate change for SMNs, I don't really see much need to change them up. There could be some vanity modifications to the Egis, such as the option to turn Garuda-Egi into a Ramuh-Egi or Shiva-Egi, but, beyond that there's not really all that much that the job needs. The only possible tweak I could think of would be creating some kind of self-destruct capability for the Egis that would have them drop an appropriate nuke but cause them to disappear and put their summon on CD (such that you'd summon Garuda, have her kill herself, summon Ifrit, and have him kill himself when Garuda's summon is recharged, and vice versa). The only real "advantage" would be causing the SMN to have a reason to bounce Egis, but that's really all that it serves since SMN already has the ability to access their summons' nukes via Enkindle.