Summoner Pet Revamp

[T0rin]

Le snip

The main difference of course, is that posts like this serve very little, to no purpose. Discussing theorycraft, damage numbers, BiS, has some functional benefit, because in the end, people come away armed with the knowledge of what is good, and what is not. Posts like these inevitably get a handful of replies, then are never seen again, and do nothing to benefit anyone except the OP (who feels like they need to rant) and the small handful of people that happen to agree.

Complaining that the sky is not green instead of blue, is not going to get it to change. Just like writing up a 2 page long ordeal about how it would be cool if ifrit would be useful, isn't going to get SE to make it so. I suppose I see my posts as a means to try to help discourage the community from continually posting the same useless drivel that ends up nowhere and accomplishing nothing and benefiting nobody. It's probably just a personality disorder of mine though.

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

I wonder if we'll ever be able to go through a single week without someone suggesting that we revamp Summoners.

Impossible.

[Orophin]

Titan and Garuda are ok. Ifrit needs some changes to make it more desirable for specific encounters so a choice has to be made between Garuda and longer DoTs, or Ifrit and ???

[Garra]

that proposed new skill for Garuda is INSANE - way too OP. But you are definitely onto the right track with regards to making all of the egis useful. right now its silly that all summys have the yellow dude following them around, there should be merits to using the other egis.

[Cabalabob]

I like the way the OP tried to make each egi relate to a different aspect of the summoner, I think this is an interesting take on how to make them individual, however it still doesn't solve the core problem.

One of the egi will still be better for groups and one will still be better for solo, leaving a third egi which is never useful. If they up ifrits damage then Garuda will be useless because ifrit will be better.

What they need to do is split the egi's usefulness across each one, but not to the extent where you have to switch them constantly during combat. For example make ifrit better at damage so he'd be best for bosses but Garuda could have a crowd control element making her better for trash pulls, for example build upon her backdraft having knockback, make it AoE, make her current AoE skill have a bind with seperate resist rate to tri-disaster, give her an AoE silence (to force caster mobs to move into the tanks range).

Complaining that the sky is not green instead of blue, is not going to get it to change. Just like writing up a 2 page long ordeal about how it would be cool if ifrit would be useful, isn't going to get SE to make it so. I suppose I see my posts as a means to try to help discourage the community from continually posting the same useless drivel that ends up nowhere and accomplishing nothing and benefiting nobody. It's probably just a personality disorder of mine though.

Right, like how WAR's posting that they need a buff didn't get SE to change how WAR worked even after they said it's fine.

[Cons]

I would like to see Garuda's shockwave have a double damage output when the mob is close to a solid object, sort of a bonus for impact damage on being hit back

[Jamez82]

I have no specific complaints about my smn other than ifrit egi could use an actual useful role.

My suggestion is making it an aoe egi. It already has a few decent ones just add a skill 10-15 sec cooldown that does the same effect as your bane only doesnt use up an aetherflow. Problem solved.

[Seobit]

I'm all for making pets more exciting, but making these threads isn't the way to go about it. Never using ifrit is, and when they take a look at their internal data and they see garuda being used 99% of the time. Then they might decide to do something about it. And they'll do it their way, in a manner that fits their vision of the game.