Why are mounts so pretty and egi's so bad?

[Lemuria]

Let's be honest, the real reason the Egi's look so weak is because... they are!

Our measly little pets account for just shy of a third of our total damage, so wouldn't it make less sense to have some incredibly powerful looking Egi only for it to hit for about as much damage as a cat scratch? I think that would annoy me even more than simply having them look the part.

[DragonFlyy]

I must be in the minority that doesn't mind how the Egis look.

[SovereignAegis]

My personal hopes are that (SUMMONER STORYLINE QUEST MINI-SPOILER)


In the game they describe the fact we cannot summon other egi (Ramuh) because we lack enough aether, so with SAVAGE primals coming out we know extreme > hard > normal primals aether and so with SAVAGE primals perhaps if we beat them on savage mode we will get enough aether (another quest opens up) to be able to get the egi glamor.

If I was a part of the development team I would strongly have advised this path for handling it. Gives variety, a sense of achievement AND works with the story!

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

/sigh, I really miss the avatars from FFXI. Loved playing summoner in the final fantasy games until XIV... This egi thing just destroys my soul.

[DNO]

Wow all I am saying is SE said they do not want to add crazy detail to egi's cause of the fact that 100s can be in the screen at one time..... Then we get hunts added to the game and guess what.... 100s of mounts on the screen that are far more detailed than egi's... It's just silly that's all.

[Ninja-Mage]

Wow all I am saying is SE said they do not want to add crazy detail to egi's cause of the fact that 100s can be in the screen at one time..... Then we get hunts added to the game and guess what.... 100s of mounts on the screen that are far more detailed than egi's... It's just silly that's all.

Not that I don't agree with you on the issue - a point could be made that those 100's of mounts on screen do cause quite a bit of problem in fates. More then a few have I been in where Odin or what ever that Coeurl king is called just disappear due to the sheer amount of people on screen. But I mean counter-argument is that this situation rarely ever happens in average gameplay. In raids you'll likely only see one or 2 pets out. So the idea that we can't have ultra-detailed summons is just stupid to me.

[Nestama]

Then we get hunts added to the game and guess what.... 100s of mounts on the screen that are far more detailed than egi's... It's just silly that's all.

And then the mounts disappear when you get off of them. Egi's however, do not disappear.

[Higashikata]

oh hey, this thread again.

[elemental10]

Oh look, it's this-

thread again.

Beat me to it.

Anyways, the egis will probably get a revamp (model-wise) when the egi glamours come. Patience, my children. The SE police have heard you and they're doing something about it.

[Koldhara]

The summons in this game are by far the most disappointing thing i can point out hands down. Even though summoner is my primary job, given i love pet based classes, i do not like them at all. I will not bother with pet Glamours if they are nothing more than a color change.

while we're at it, can we make pets go passive on mount so that we don't have to re-summon them every time we aggro something and we're still traveling?