The Egi Conundrum: Heavensward and Beyond!

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I know right! When I first played through the ARR story I thought for sure Siren would be a Primal, as well as Diabolos. Since there isn't much lore on either I guess there is still a chance they could indeed be Primals. They would make great candidates for the light and dark Egi. Though Bismarck or Alexander might have the light attribute covered, I feel Bismarck is more likely going to be unaspected though.

Siren is a lower case primal (An aetheric being), while Diabolos is confirmed to be a void creature.

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As far as I remember Bismarck is water attributed summon (FFVI and FF Unlimited), but in these games/shows we didn't have Levi.
So I wonder, what will they invent for Bismarck in FFXIV.

Here, Bismark doesn't look like he's water-aspected, but rather wind-aspected instead (given he's flying through the clouds).
But who knows at this point...we'll have to see once the actual expansion comes out.

Siren is a lower case primal (An aetheric being), while Diabolos is confirmed to be a void creature.

WRONG. Here, siren is a species of creatures and NOT a primal/aetheric-based being.
You're right in that Diabolos is a voidsent, though (and they hinted at his possible return).

[SoloWingMetatron]

Here, Bismark doesn't look like he's water-aspected, but rather wind-aspected instead (given he's flying through the clouds).
But who knows at this point...we'll have to see once the actual expansion comes out.

Bismarck does indeed look like he would be wind aspected at first glance. But since Garuda is already a wind aspected Primal I feel it would be more likely for Bismarck to be a different aspect. Unless of course it's possible to have more then one Primal/Egi of the same aspect.

But with the confirmation of three new Egi for Heavensward (Levi, Ramuh, Shiva) I am really interested to see how each will play/differ, or will they just simply fall into the typical paradigm of Tank, Melee DPS, Ranged DPS again?

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But since Garuda is already a wind aspected Primal I feel it would be more likely for Bismarck to be a different aspect. Unless of course it's possible to have more then one Primal/Egi of the same aspect.

I think it's very possible.
After all, we have Ifrit and Belias, as well as

Phoenix, as shown in T12

for Fire-aspected Primals thus far, so...

[SoloWingMetatron]

I think it's very possible.
After all, we have Ifrit and Belias, as well as

Phoenix, as shown in T12

for Fire-aspected Primals thus far, so...

Very true, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to get more than one Primal/Egi of the same aspect. Perhaps that's why the Summon command abilities are so ambiguously named/described. For example Summon III's description is "Summons an attacker-type pet to fight at your side". This could suggest that more than one type of attacker Egi could be summoned via this command in the future.

It would be nice to see each Egi have a unique role though. I feel Levi would be a great candidate for AoE DPS, Ramuh could provide stuns and paralysis, and Shiva could freeze and provide heavy/slow debuffs. However I feel in regards to Ramuh and Shiva, they will still have a general DPS focus and any debuffs/status ailments they provide will come as a knock on effect from one of their attacks.