What should the new egi's abilities should be?

[Bigcat9715]

We discussed your feedback about the design of the egi with the development team. As was mentioned previously during the Beta test, the design planner reiterated that egi were designed to be a manifestation of a percentage of power taken from the primals and are intentionally designed to appear differently from the primal. As such, we aren't planning on changing the look of egi at higher levels.

We will however continue to take in your feedback when creating new egi that will be added in the future.

Well let's stop looking to the past and start working on the future. This is the way i think the new egi's should be.


Ramuh should be all about killing mobs.

1. A lightning strike cast attack with a 100 potency

2. Ramuh should have a dot ability that has a 15% chance to jump to a near by enemy and the same effect happens on that enemy. 70 Potency 40 sec CD

3. Another Ramuh should be an AOE like aerial slash. 110 potency 30 sec CD

4. For Ramuh fourth ability it should be a magnet aoe that pulls nearby enemies to the center along with the focus target. 45 sec CD

5. Enkindle should just be a simple burst damage AOE.


Leviathan Should be a Support pet.

1. An aura attack with a 70 potency

2. Leviathan should have a bubble shield that has a drown debuff (can be neutralize with regen or whisper dawn) and protect the target from 10% of all incoming damage. 30 sec Cd

3. An Aoe buff that each tick restore 5% of MP for 15 secs. 20 sec

4. An Aoe buff that each tick restore 5% of TP for 15 secs. 20 sec (both buffs can't be up at the same time)

5. Enkindle adds a none damaging bubble shield to all nearby allies.


Shiva is a little hard because we haven't faced her yet, but she should be a single target debuffer.

1. Strikes the target with her sword. 100 potency

2. uses blizzard to slow and heavy a enemy target for 15 secs the slow effect can stack with shadowflare's slow effect. 90 potency 30 sec CD

3. a Defense buff by 20% because she is melee base (couldn't really think of anything, but she's running around with a Sword and shield, so defense seems to fit.) 40 sec CD

4. a 10 sec vulnerability debuff. 80 potency 45 sec CD

5. Enkindle does a AOE Hailstorm that slows, heavy, and damages all enemies within.

[Exstal]

Shiva won't be until 4.0 (probably) because..

Expansion Content (3.0):
** Level cap increased.
*** Addition of new abilities & traits with increase (2-3 skills).
*** Leviathan-Egi & Ramuh-Egi added.

[Gerolan]

Personally I'd like to see ramuh get shock spikes, does thunder damage and occasional stuns, it's already in game as a sylph move
As for Levi, healing spring, heals X amount
Too early for shiva but a paralysing move would be appropriate, maybe as ice spikes, ice damage and chance to paralyse

[Bigcat9715]

Personally I'd like to see ramuh get shock spikes, does thunder damage and occasional stuns, it's already in game as a sylph move
As for Levi, healing spring, heals X amount
Too early for shiva but a paralysing move would be appropriate, maybe as ice spikes, ice damage and chance to paralyse

I don't think they would make Levi a healing pet since there's already Scholar. But since dps, casting, and tanks are already taken it would make sense they will make at least one pet a support. I think Levi can be the perfect support pet given the chance.

[lordparanoia]

I would love a support pet, for example, for levi's nature, he could cast manawall or manaward in aoe.

[Alihabra]

I personally don't mind what happens with them as long as they make them preferable over Garuda in certain situations. But I'm fairly certain that they won't be giving the pets party-wide healing abilities/ support due to balancing issues (SMN can already provide quite a bit of support as it is). Any 'support' the pets give would likely be to the SMN themselves or in the form of debuffs.

The only pet I have really considered any detail is levi:
Leviathan: AOE melee pet. Has a weak single target attack (say 50 pot, 3 sec recast) and an 80 pot AOE ability like aerial slash that causes heavy for 10 secs (30 sec recast). Has a cooldown that causes his single target ability to deal AOE damage in a line for 15 secs (2 min). Has an ability that restores 5% of the SMN mp and increase spell speed for 10 secs. His Enkindle would basically be a large AOE ability.

If something like this were to happen, I would suspect he would be used for large trash pulls in dungeons and any future content like T4 that is AOE intensive.

Ramuh would probably be the support/ debuffing caster pet I would imagine, while Shiva could be a strong melee pet with few AOE capabilities that has a basic positional attacking system (maybe with a slashing resistance debuff). Obviously I haven't thought these two through, but I thought that their roles would compliment the current pets well.

[MercuryD]

Well let's stop looking to the past and start working on the future. This is the way i think the new egi's should be.

Yes!

And my 2 cents, I see Shiva being tank/melee role though since all we know of her is that she carries sword/shield, that's where I'm leaving it. I see Ramuh being our native caster. Only really given
Leviathan any thought though. I see him being either caster (not likely) or melee with debuff capabilities because, let's face it, majority of the stuff in EX that will wipe you are debuffs (dread, dropsy, water resist-down). Maybe give him barracuda dive with a small magic resist down effect?

[Andres_Lonegrief]

I hope one of them will give SMNs a decent AOE spell to kill fast trashmobs and annoying adds ...

[Bigcat9715]

Yes!

And my 2 cents, I see Shiva being tank/melee role though since all we know of her is that she carries sword/shield, that's where I'm leaving it. I see Ramuh being our native caster. Only really given
Leviathan any thought though. I see him being either caster (not likely) or melee with debuff capabilities because, let's face it, majority of the stuff in EX that will wipe you are debuffs (dread, dropsy, water resist-down). Maybe give him barracuda dive with a small magic resist down effect?

I can see him being a casting debuffer. Just something we don't already have.

[KingOfAbyss]

the design planner reiterated that egi were designed to be a manifestation of a percentage of power taken from the primals and are intentionally designed to appear differently from the primal.

In other words: We screwed up - PR department came with that cover idea.

As for the rest: hmm.. tough call. We have Fire, Earth, Wind, next Water, Thunder, Ice.

Levi: Would be nice to be able to entomb mobs in bubbles just like Hullbreaker 2nd Boss!

Ramuh: I'm expecting AoE lightning! That would be awesome.

Shiva: Grey Fullbuster's Prodigy.. Ice..make..Prison!

If we could swap them in the blink of an eye, would have been nice to see shiva shooting Ice sheet on ground, freezing everyone in Aoe, Then Ramuh..