Why are SMNs not getting new Egi?

[Dyvid]

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The reason they said back in 2015 on why they couldn't add new summons was because they couldn't figure out how to add new one and make them relevant. Through out FFXIV Garuda was the end all Egi because of her old ability to extend DoTs. SE finally address this problem in 4.0 and we now have two useful pets. Also a lot of people wanted to use carbuncle again, mainly because I think everyone liked the design, thus Egi Glamour was born and sadly seemed to die soon after launch.

The best thing we can do at this point is push SE on adding new Egi's to the Egi Glamour system. I suggest SE divide the Egi's Glamour system up into two caterogies; Melee and Ranged. In this way the community doesn't have to guess if you are using Summon I or Summon III and the dev don't have to try and make each Egi into a once style fits all approach. Starting now Titan and Ifrit would be melee and Garuda would be Ranged; Carby is what it is and shouldn't be changes.

Melee:
Leviathan
Ravana
Sephirot
Susano
Zurvan

Ranged:
Shiva
Ramuh
Bismarck
Sophia
Lakshmi

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

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Good suggestion, but to keep the roots of Summoner true to the ARR style for time's being, I suggest the following glamour options:

Melee - Ifrit <--> Leviathan
Ranged - Garuda <--> Ramuh
Tank - Titan <--> Shiva (in sword + shield mode)

Regarding the "lack" of demi-primals, you need to remember two things:
1.) Even the model of Bahamut took strains to create for optimization. Demi-Bahamut looks fairly different to the real one.
2.) Demi-summons will most likely be based on "Prime" primals, such as Bahamut Prime and Alexander Prime. That said, I can see Alexander Prime being a thing, even if only as glamour to Bahamut.

[Dyvid]

Good suggestion, but to keep the roots of Summoner true to the ARR style for time's being, I suggest the following glamour options:

Melee - Ifrit <--> Leviathan
Ranged - Garuda <--> Ramuh
Tank - Titan <--> Shiva (in sword + shield mode)

Regarding the "lack" of demi-primals, you need to remember two things:
1.) Even the model of Bahamut took strains to create for optimization. Demi-Bahamut looks fairly different to the real one.
2.) Demi-summons will most likely be based on "Prime" primals, such as Bahamut Prime and Alexander Prime. That said, I can see Alexander Prime being a thing, even if only as glamour to Bahamut.

The issue with that and why I suggest to glamour just attacker and caster is because Summon II is rarely used by Summoner; restricted to mainly solo content or open world events that doesn't have a tank. Also if you look at both Ifrit and Titan Egi, they have very similar action animation to the point that you coult glamour Titan to Summon III today and the devs would only need to remove the AoE ground effect. Also Sephirot Egi is already in the game.

[Nezerius]

As for the glamour that was also promised or hinted at a while back but got put on the back burner, but they managed to get out carbuncle glams instead.

Carbuncle was simply the first egi glamour using that developed system. I'd hardly call that something promised or hinted at, when it's already there.

and sadly seemed to die soon after launch.

3.5 added Carbuncles and the Egi Glamour System. 4.0 added a demi-egi. While 4.1 hasn't added a new egi glamour, they didn't say that every future patch would contain a new egi glamour, just that new egi glamours would be added in future patches.
It's too soon to call it a dead system, so let's hold off on that until we know what'll be in 4.2.