I like helping people with their Job ideas, it's fun to help them visuallize and create the job they'd like to play most. Plus I make my own too, I'll post them eventually.
As some have mentioned, the Anima minion is great choice for a fairy, if we can get that in different colours (maybe Emerald, Topaz and Ruby like SMN) I could live with that in the short term, but looking ahead I hope there will be nice unique appearances to make them more glamorous to use.
I really wish Arcanist was just built with a system whereby you equip an item in the offhand slot, and that determines what pet you summon. So you start off with the class and you have a Carbuncle Ruby (ideally you can dye it to customise the colour of Carbuncle) and you need that equipped to use Summon and Summon II (this kind of limitation is already in place with Paladin, some skills require a shield equipped). Upon unlocking Summoner and Scholar, yet get new items to equip in to access various Egi and Fey, while also allowing both jobs to still use Carbuncle; I'd love Scholar to have Carbuncle as well, with Healing Ruby/etc. So a fresh Lv30 Scholar would already have the Carbuncle Ruby, and the quest would give them access to the Selene and Eos gem to equip in order for their summoned pet to be either Eos or Selene.
I'd much prefer a system like that to what we've already seen with Egi-Glamour, which in my opinion is a terrible system. It gets the job done (even if it has since been abandoned), but it's such an unintuitive way to work it, and adds no real additional content... With an offhand item determining your pet, not only do you have a scenario where you can have one pet for both summon types (so Caster Ifrit-Egi, for example, with skills like Searing Wind), but where do you get said items to equip? You add new value to doing Primals for Summoner I imagine, and who knows where Scholar options could drop from, but they'd have to come from somewhere, and that's more reason to do whatever content it is. I think more content like that is much better than typing in a text command to change pet appearance...
Also, as a side note, I find it kind of funny how Yoshida basically said "Egi-Glamour isn't a priority because it's just for one job", but then we get patch after patch of Performance options being added solely to Bard... I get that it's much simpler to produce than new summoned pets, but honestly that excuse never sat right with me anyway, not in a game where you can play all jobs on a single character... Work the system how I've suggested and I can see it being some new minor content for everyone, people might not main the jobs but that doesn't stop them collecting the items to edit the pets appearance. Ultimately I'd see it the same as collecting primal mounts in terms of content...
Last edited by Nalien; 12-23-2018 at 06:12 PM.
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