Quote Originally Posted by Jranmaia View Post
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.
Pets gaining Aetherflow stacks like a Summoner could work.
Aetherflow could give the pet an aetherflow buff, Rouse could as well and so could Spur. At 3 stacks they would be able to use an improved Enkindle that dismisses the pet and combo's with the other Summon skills making them instant cast MP free actions.
So Swiftcast > Summon III > Aetherflow > Rouse > Spur > Enkindle > Insta-summon Garuda for free while Ifrit goes on a long cool down.

Pets could also start off slightly weaker than they are at the moment but aether stacks would give them minor buffs, at 1 they'd be as they are now, 2 would be a very minor improvement and 3 would be just short of rouse. I also like the idea that the pet physically grows as more aether is pumped into it. Pet aether stacks unlike SMN ones couldn't last indefenitely though, after a fairly decent duration the buff would dissapear, I'd have the timer closely linked with the aetherflow ability so always keeping one stack on them would be a fairly straightforward task but keeping them buffed or having abilities ready to buff them for Enkindle would require much more skill and diligence.