The Egi Conundrum: Heavensward and Beyond!

[SoloWingMetatron]

Yea something like that, or an idea I have, you slowly buff you pet with stacking buff and at max stacks you can enkindle doing some burst, but killing the pet and forcing a switch, even if the egis just get a simple single target and an aoe attack just the fact your using enkindle more often and having to actaully summon things in battle gives off a SMN vibe. I do actually prefer the idea of it slowly weakening though so you dont have situations where a fully buffed egi is more damage than using enkindle. Enkindle does need to play a more prominent role to SMN though.

Both of these ideas sound great. It really would be nice for SMN to have a reason to use multiple Egi during a fight. Both the weakening and buff stacking idea would make the SMN pay closer attention to their Egi during a fight in order to know when to switch them out. Also with more Egi being released it would ensure a SMN will actually use them all and not just one or two.

Personally I prefer the buff stacking idea coz building up stacks on the Egi in order to release an Enkindle with a high damage output sounds really fun! It would give a real focus to the Egi and also plays into the traditional concept of a Summon being dismissed after doing its signature attack. Perhaps the Egi could also increase in size slightly with each buff stack before Enkindle is unleashed, kinda like a Bomb. This would be a good way of giving the Egi that size increase that some of us really want, and since it's not a permanent size increase it would not be detrimental to other players.