A more summonery Summoner

[Volker_Mateus]

1. When rouse/spur/enkindle is used the egi takes on a bigger form and/or they change into a much smaller version of their original primal.
2. new summons ramuh caster dps shiva tank leviathan melee dps adding glamour only to corresponding summons emerald carbuncle can only be glamoured with garuda topaz only with Titan. It doesn't make sense to have titan or ifrit cast wind magic and vice versa.
3. summon I, II, and III are different class types while picking the egi to summon via the pet window. example- summon I is a caster DPS, summon II gives pets tank ability set and, summon III melee DPS. in pet window you choose a form the egi will take garuda/titan/ifrit/leviathan/ramuh/shiva all those will have a set of caster abilities that are the element of the egi, I feel this could be a better option to use any pet you wish and have it serve the type of role you want it to play. all they would have to do is change the skin of abilities not hard to do.

[Volker_Mateus]

4. going along with number 3 give the summoner stances (since it seems all jobs are getting different stances) that choose the egi instead of pet window that enhance the summoner/party depending on the egi/stance used. but you may run into only one egi being used more than others due to stance. Changing stance could also change your egi to that element. Example- in garuda stance gives spell speed to summoner but a big attack is about to happen switch to titan stance egi changes to titan and you get DEF boost
I personally enjoy summoner and feel SE did a great job coming up with this class. But there are a few things that are a bit disappointing as with all jobs. its my favorite job out of all the series. but just changing the skin just doesn't do it for me.. I really think option 3 is a pretty good idea.

[Higashikata]

1) What would the bigger and better primals do?

2) What would be different about them that would set them apart from ifrit/garuda/titan egis? We need quality over quantity, there's already almost no reason to ever not use ifrit egi.

3) There's already an egi glamour system in the works

4) Bahamut Trance will give the summoner a damage increase along with allowing the use of abilities bahamut himself uses. Elements in this game do nothing so switching "Egi stance" to a different element would be useless.

[Skeith-Adeline]

I have a hard time understanding the purpose of this. Are these personal ideas as to what you'd like to see happen? I can tell you that not any will come to fruition.

[FyrmurlFloerasksyn]

What's it with summoners and bigger primals?

[pandabearcat]

Overcompensating?

[Volker_Mateus]

No its just an idea. I've just been reading too many post of people complaining that they wanted more egis and such its mostly cosmetics with size issue other people seem to have. The whole just glamouring your pet to look like another with the same abilities is pretty lame and lazy imo. I don't have a problem seeing garuda all the time and I don't really care about the size. Just tired of people saying this class isn't good just because of cosmetics. Personally I think 3 is a pretty good option to have a egi play any role and people would get to decide the skin. Just an idea.

[Fatshine]

Jesus Christ, as a Summoner main, SMN on this forum are annoying as hell. There are like 20 posts every week about SMN. Everyone, please for the love of god, wait 3 weeks for Heavensward to play with the shinies. I feel like I'm in the minority that loves the job as it is and is excited for what's coming.

[Atlaworks]

I've seen this topic a lot now. Well, kind of. Either way, none of this is useful.

1: This would just clutter the screen and make people turn off skill effects more. You know how holy in towns is? Yeah. Also if it's just cosmetic, there's... really no point.
2: Are these any different from our current melee(Ifrit), tank(Titan), caster(Garuda) setup? I think(?) this is only glamour.
3: People have asked for this a lot. I think. Egi glamour, right? It might be in the works, but fixing summoner's gameplay comes before fixing summoner's looks.

At least I think you're only proposing "Longer, girthier, and more pleasurable egis". But they work fine as is, and the balance issues they have are being solved(and how!) come heavensward. If you wait patiently you might get egi glamouring down the line, which seems... like what you're asking for. I think. I'm sorry if I misunderstood, your posts are a little hard to comprehend at parts.

[Volker_Mateus]

I love summoner and don't have any problem with its gameplay. I'm excited for the new content. I just seem to always read other people complaining about looks i'm pretty tired of it. the only thing that worries me is a titan glamour casting wind spells from garuda which doesn't make sense. Just give all egis the option to be the role the summoner wants them to be and I think that would fix a lot of the complainers. But then again people will find other things to complain about.