I moments ago posted on page eight of yet another thread complaining about the poor visual presence of Summons in FFXIV. What I posted, however, was in regards to the current bad spot Titan-Egi is in in terms of his mechanics - and I think that's an important enough topic to warrant a thread of its own. This thread isn't about Titan-egi the Chicken Nugget. This thread is about Titan-Egi the Tank.

Titan-Egi has always been the least useful of the three Egis, but he did have his niche. He was useful while soloing, of course, and he used to be tough enough to carry a dungeon run if the tank disconnected.

Over the course of the natural evolution of the game, however, players have gotten stronger and stronger damage rotations - while the potency of Titan's abilities haven't changed at all. In ARR, Titan-egi's enmity generation was plenty to keep ahead of the Summoner, and was enough to even make actual tanks work hard to keep up.

Nowadays, though, Titan-Egi simply can't keep up, not even with his own Summoner - and worse, a SMN's rotation regularly dismisses him to bring out Demi-Bahamut, causing him to lose all accumulated enmity.

Simply put, Titan-Egi can no longer do the one job it was created to do.

So, what can be done? I'd like to see Titan-Egi become a viable tank, again. At a minimum, Titan-egi's enmity generation needs a boost. It needs to be able to keep up with contemporary damage output, whether by boosting the potency of Titan-Egi's attacks, or boosting the amount of additional enmity his attacks generate. (Or both.)

At the same time, it can't really be a flat adjustment to Titan-Egi's stats, or he would become a menace in low-level dungeons. I'm thinking that a Summoner Job Trait might be in order - perhaps one that boosts the damage across ALL Egis (Titan's not the only one whose attacks are pretty lackluster in today's meta).

Dealing with the enmity loss due to summoning Demi-Bahamut is a hairier issue. Allowing Titan-egi to keep his enmity while temporarily dismissed is one possible avenue. Giving him Ultimatum to quickly regain hate is another. Both solutions, though, leave the Summoner (and their fellow party members) vulnerable while Demi-Bahamut is out.

Perhaps Demi-Bahamut should share Titan-Egi's enmity? Let HIM be the tank, while Titan-egi is away? That would require quite the overhaul, since Demi-Bahamut is currently not targetable, damageable, or killable.

What do people think? What can we do to bring our chicken nugget back into play - even to the limited usefulness he had in ARR?