Just sayin... (SMN)

[Jandor]

I thought Summoners used locally sourced all natural fire/wind/earth aspected aether to make an environmentally friendly primal, with a bit of help from a dead summoner in a rock and a stolen crystal from an evil primal.

Guess it turns out doing it that way instead of the evil "mountains of crystals" way makes a pretty small primal .

[Sadana]

I thought Summoners used locally sourced all natural fire/wind/earth aspected aether to make an environmentally friendly primal, with a bit of help from a dead summoner in a rock and a stolen crystal from an evil primal.

Guess it turns out doing it that way instead of the evil "mountains of crystals" way makes a pretty small primal .

Sounds more like they would summon Capt. Planet. XDDD
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I wish too that the egis didn't look like 1-piece plastic toys you get from fast food joints' kids' meal bags. :/

[Jandor]

Sounds more like they would summon Capt. Planet. XDDD

Titan! Ifrit! Garuda! Leviathan! King Mog! By your powers combined.. I AM BAHAMUT-EGI!

[meischoice]

I wouldn't be surprised if they made it possible to "upgrade" an Egi so they resemble an appearance that is closer to the actual primal.
Or if they changed the Summoner's current Limit Break and made it where a Random Primal appear to do the damage

[SionDurant]

I really would like to see them make the summons more interesting. I love FFXIV so I won't bash the creative content, it's actually top notch.

But Summoner feels as if it was thrown together, I appreciate the Dev making debuffers feel at home (not sarcasm), but I would have preferred they do so with die hard Final Fantasy fans in mind.

In every final fantasy, as well as the off-brand Bravely Default, summons are very epic and they actually have made me think "Where did this guy come from, what's his deal" etc.

I used to ask the Devs to consider non-primal based summons, making Eidolons that either resemble the Primals (Similar to FF Type O with "Class based" summons, IE Ifrit Class, Titan Class etc), or making summons based off of spirits of odd creatures (Carbuncle, Fenrir, Diabolos, Alexander, Anima, Unicorn etc) like Final Fantasy VI. Could even make original ones for FFXIV, but just put the same love/care you did in every other FF title.

[Jandor]

I wouldn't be surprised if they made it possible to "upgrade" an Egi so they resemble an appearance that is closer to the actual primal.
Or if they changed the Summoner's current Limit Break and made it where a Random Primal appear to do the damage

Random!? I want 3 special LB animations for each egi I could happen to be using, plus another 3 special animations for if I happen to have no egi out with the LB3 being meteor except half way down it stops and Bahamut-egi bursts out and unleashes a small controlled apocalypse .

[Tempestrus]

I really do wish that egis looked more like the actual primals and were larger. I like how the primals look in this game, Garuda is my favorite, but the egis are just not pretty. FFXI's summons were downright visually awesome.

But I am really excited for upcoming changes for the Summoner class in the future. Here's to hoping that Leviathan and Ramuh's egis are awesome.

[AlexPayne]

I really don't give a crap what my egi looks like. They're just fine as far as I'm concerned. People act like some leftover sprite from Alex Kidd in Miracle World is following us around.

And as far as the OP goes, it took getting all the way to level 50 to realize you didn't like the look so you quit? Probably should have realized it sooner, and at least switched classes at 10 if you hate it so much.

[Akiza]

I really don't give a crap what my egi looks like. They're just fine as far as I'm concerned. People act like some leftover sprite from Alex Kidd in Miracle World is following us around.

And as far as the OP goes, it took getting all the way to level 50 to realize you didn't like the look so you quit? Probably should have realized it sooner, and at least switched classes at 10 if you hate it so much.

That's because the Egis are left over sprites from Alex Kidd in Miracle World that follow us around.

[subteraneanbird]

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Because the trade off is some classes don't get to do some content, which is incredibly exclusionary and ruins any marginal fun you can wring out of elemental wheels. Imagine no one using BLM because Ifrit absorbs their strongest attacks. There's no way to make an elemental wheel work in this game without tearing apart all the classes to give them all elements (which kinda ruins it anyways) or accepting the fact that some classes will become wholly unusable for some content, a disastrous decision for an MMO to make.