Carbuncle for Summoners!

[Sapphic]

Think whats more important for summoner at the rpesent is making Ifrit a viable option to use, as viable as Garuda.

Overall Ifrit does higher DPS than Garuda, but has a fatal flaw... It keeps dieing! Saw it today in Amdapor, SMn using Ifrit, dieing constantly on boss fights from PBAE. Addin a waste of mana to keep resummoning.

Simple fix would be to make it immune or take minimal damage from AE in pve.

Otherwise is it viable to switch between Ifrit for low hp trash where in many cases the normal dot duration expires before they are dead, nullifying the extender from Garuda, then switching to Garuda for protracted fights?

[Huntington]

I'd be all for this more than anyone else. Arcanist and the ability to be one was one of the singular reasons I had to play XIV, back in August 2013 when details for all the classes were out, I instantly took a liking to the new and improved Carbuncle since SMN was my favorite class in XI. Once I hit 30 and unlocked Summoner, I wasn't too overjoyed to see the Egis. I was too fresh to the game to really mind them, but I also liked Carbuncle more. So once I hit 45 and Garuda replaced Carby, it sucked a little. Most things in XIV look decently nice on the PS3 even when it's a little outdated, but the Egis just didn't feel like true efforts to make us an actual Summoner. I'd call the class a Coalescer more than a Summoner honestly. Mainly for the reason that as you find out in the Arcanist quest line, they take mathematical formulas and use them to shape their strategies and plans, then they can summon Carbuncle to help with this.


You're only able to summon partial Primals because you have their "essence" after fighting the full ones, then you fought the concentrated versions and bound them to your will. This seems more like something a Druid would do compared to a Summoner. Yes the summon animation resembles you signing a document to call forth the beings to do what you want after agreeing to a contract, but the Primals don't seem right dwarfed down to such a size, Carbuncle was always a cute fluffy rodent and it would be blasphemous to see him be gigantic, but then the Egis just didn't feel right in anyway when you played with them for awhile.

Just my opinion anyways.

[Seif]

Just from a visual standpoint carby is the only one that looks like a complete fully funtioning being while the rest are just rocks.
I don't mind the size but I feel the other summons are not made with the same level of detail and animations as carbuncle is.

[RumiP]

Just from a visual standpoint carby is the only one that looks like a complete fully funtioning being while the rest are just rocks.
I don't mind the size but I feel the other summons are not made with the same level of detail and animations as carbuncle is.

Probably because it's a ported model from XI. Sure it's been touched up a bit.

If they ported the other summons from XI, they would probably be too imposing for the small scale abilities they would have. So to fit the new summons with the scale of what SMN is in XIV as opposed to XI, they are rocks and fire/wind sprites.

Pure speculation by the way.

[Rex]

If they reconsidered that, then Summoner might have more of an upper hand to Scholar no? They'd have to allow Scholar to summon Carby...maybe the Emerald Carby for Summoner and Topaz Carby for Scholar?

[Malamasala]

Well, you CAN summon him as an Arcanist. It is more of a question of why we can't unequip our job crystals and still be something that matters. They really need to buff the classes so you can play without job crystals as well.

[Limonia]

I didn't even do the Summoner job quests because I didn't want the Carbuncles to be replaced with those weird egis. Well, no dungeons for me as Summoner, but whatever. xD
Why did they make them REPLACE the Carbuncles anyway? They could have made Summon IV and V instead. You don't have to use the Carbuncles if they're too weak. But it would be nice if you were able to without having to unequip the crystal.

Especially Titan and Ifrit are really ugly. Not that Garuda's any nicer, well ...
But I didn't know that others think like that as well. Somehow I always thought I was the only one that likes the Carbuncles more. ^^

The Carbuncles helped me so many times, don't wanna replace them. ._.

[Jinko]

I'm not sure how this game deals with character models but couldn't you just swap out dats to load up a carbuncle model instead of the current one, why can't the devs do this and add a pet customisation option somewhere.

[Warlyx]

SE please reconsider that.....

pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[kidvideo]

SE please reconsider that.....

pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Look at that face! The keen patience, his sparkles sparkling, the determined awareness, his legs coiled to pounce at his mater's command! The best fox/squirrel/rabbit ever!