No Egi glamour in 3.4?

**Leigaon** · 08-31-2016 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by RajaVamberaux

Why do people want egi glamours anyways? It won't affect gameplay at all and the egis look fine as-is... I'd rather them spend development on something else thanks

It's more for nostalgia purposes. Job rebalance might take place in 4.0 so don't get me wrong I'd love to see adjustments to the actual abilities for the egi's, or if the team can help out with other content that'd great.

At the same time I'll admit I was more about the job / class when I was able to summon Carbuncle over Garuda-egi. I took so many pictures in a hooded robe with a book and carbuncle out and our adventure. A lot of posts have been more about the egi and how they look compared to their actual functions. I've seen some pretty nice talks about summoner and their abilities / suggested improvements, but no where near the level of detail someone has put into the "make it look pretty" threads.

It has taken them a while, but to understand exactly why? I don't think anyone wants the actual answer, though it would come down to in the Rubik's Cube of project management this was not one of the colors and was put to the side for next time. Though it might take little time to do it, that's not the only factor that comes in. One team doing something could bottleneck others. Or time..contractors..who is doing what and their abilities..money money money..guy that doesn't know what's going on saying no due to good or bad advice..it's all out there.

**Dyvid** · 09-01-2016 05:10 AM

Originally Posted by RajaVamberaux

Why do people want egi glamours anyways? It won't affect gameplay at all and the egis look fine as-is... I'd rather them spend development on something else thanks

Totally agree in that most summoners wanted new pets.... we didn't get it because SE admitted they didn't know how to add new ones.
Then a year ago they mention pet glamour as a consolation prize...

**g1real** · 09-01-2016 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by RajaVamberaux

Why do people want egi glamours anyways? It won't affect gameplay at all and the egis look fine as-is... I'd rather them spend development on something else thanks

The general consensus between summoners is that the egi do not look fine as-is, and never have; they're giant lifeless blobs. Carbuncles actually had some emotion to them and actually looked like something you wanted to pet.

Even giving two/three cloned summon spells where the only change is a model swap to carbuncle would be a start of showing a lot of love towards summoners. They obviously don't want to do that because it's a cheap way out of giving people what they want. No, it HAS to be some mechanic/quest/whatever/interface they develop instead of a slight rewrite of a script.

**RajaVamberaux** · 09-02-2016 03:52 AM

Originally Posted by g1real

The general consensus between summoners is that the egi do not look fine as-is, and never have; they're giant lifeless blobs.

I guess I just don't agree. I think they look cool. So what they don't look *exactly* like the primal; they're not supposed to. I'm also not in favor of breaking the lore since Summoners are supposed to wield the power of the primals we've defeated, and I'm not seeing how the carbuncles apply to that.

I would be in favor of retexturing them so Ifrit doesn't look crappy up close but honestly it's just not something I want developers spending time on. No one in-game ever talks about this, only people whining about broken promises on the forums. If they were to add additional summons, how would these even be different? We have a caster, a melee, and a pseudo-tank. What more do people want? Some say the devs are lacking imagination/creativity but I've yet to see any suggestions for a wholly unique & useful summon that wouldn't replace one we already have.

**Adventica6** · 09-02-2016 04:06 AM

Wonderous trials miqote npc will more than likely have carby glamour for some of her rewards (not out yet). She is a carby master and has a ruby carbuncle as her pet.

The devs want to give a treat to smns but they don't want to invest lots of developer time into 1 class when there is plenty of other meaningful things they could be doing.

I am pleased about the carby stuff, I was always sad to lose those pets from my arcanist.

Nobody likes/wants the current summons, so instead of making brand new stuff, they will just add the exisiting carby models and skill animations and everyone is happy and case closed.

If you are one of those people who can't accept developer direction, time constraints, developer costs, initiative, then honestly too bad for you, I am happy with their decision of the actual smn character being more powerful than the summons.

**Rawrz** · 09-02-2016 05:01 AM

SCH too plz. :[

**Rennies** · 09-02-2016 06:29 AM

Yeah, Titan Egi looks absolutely terrible. Good thing he's not usable in 97% of content.

**Iromi** · 09-02-2016 06:44 AM

I didn't see it either and he said "in the LL on the 14 hour stream we will be announcing everything in 3.4"

perhaps he meant battle content wise? Because there was no hair styles shown or glamour outfits..and we always get those

**Kheoss** · 09-26-2016 04:06 AM

No, not everyone has a disdain for them. I do agree mayhaps bringing in new primals eventually, but I am one of I could presume many to not want a silly carbuncle or fairy.

**Lambdafish** · 09-26-2016 04:40 AM

Originally Posted by Kheoss

No, not everyone has a disdain for them. I do agree mayhaps bringing in new primals eventually, but I am one of I could presume many to not want a silly carbuncle or fairy.

They have stated that the system will launch with 1 glamour, and each patch after will also have 1, so I would expect carbuncles in the patch it comes in, then more interesting glamours in the following patches

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