Summoner Tanking Pet

[Kuurei]

Idk, I've seen that chicken nugget tank better than some of the tanks I was grouped with at the time. He was more helpful than some would think.

The problem with the Chicken Nugget is honestly that Bahamut stole all the dipping sauce.

[MsQi]

except for very few niche instances like job-quests.

Not exactly a "niche" considering how much of this game is designed around soloing and that hopefully everyone is doing their job-quests.

[Vidu]

Not exactly a "niche" considering how much of this game is designed around soloing and that hopefully everyone is doing their job-quests.

My point was: how many jobquests with an instances in which you can and want to tank something with Titan-Egi instead of killing it faster (or the damn thing just not having an aggrotable) are/were there - and how many dungeons, raids, trials etc. are you doing, in which you dont want to use Titan-Egi?

While I agree that job-quests are an important part of not only playing your job (please do them, folks) and the game, in total gametime they still some short compared to dungeons (unless someone only levels their summoner through hunt-marks, I guess...)

For everyone who used their Egi for tanking mobs in the open world: you still have a real chicken to do that for you.

[RitsukoSonoda]

The summoner tanking pet never actually served the purpose of tanking, though - except for very few niche instances like job-quests. Other than that it has never been effectively used and was only called by inexperienced, leveling summoners and annoyed the hell out of the tank in question.

The tank-egi will now fill the role of a support-summon and maybe will actually be of some use in day-to-day life.

No one remembers how we used to cheese Ramuh EX with titan egi's before SE decided to nerf it? >.>

[Lium]

The summoner tanking pet never actually served the purpose of tanking, though - except for very few niche instances like job-quests. Other than that it has never been effectively used and was only called by inexperienced, leveling summoners and annoyed the hell out of the tank in question.

The tank-egi will now fill the role of a support-summon and maybe will actually be of some use in day-to-day life.

Uh...guess I'm doing it wrong then. I use titan-egi all the time while leveling and it holds aggro just fine. Of course I don't use it in dungeons where there is already a tank. But I use titan quite literally all the time during solo play.

[CorbinDallas]

Uh...guess I'm doing it wrong then. I use titan-egi all the time while leveling and it holds aggro just fine. Of course I don't use it in dungeons where there is already a tank. But I use titan quite literally all the time during solo play.

You could have used Ifrit and killed things significantly faster.

[Lium]

You could have used Ifrit and killed things significantly faster.

I dunno, it felt natural to me being a caster that I would use a tank pet while soloing. All the other DPS pets came out in dungeons/trials/Eureka depending on the situations and the boss. Titan is the pet I used by far the most while leveling.

[CorbinDallas]

I dunno, it felt natural to me being a caster that I would use a tank pet while soloing. All the other DPS pets came out in dungeons/trials/Eureka depending on the situations and the boss. Titan is the pet I used by far the most while leveling.

No other job has a pocket tank for solo activities, SMN doesn't need one either.

[DarkMasamune]

The summoner tanking pet never actually served the purpose of tanking, though - except for very few niche instances like job-quests. Other than that it has never been effectively used and was only called by inexperienced, leveling summoners and annoyed the hell out of the tank in question.

The tank-egi will now fill the role of a support-summon and maybe will actually be of some use in day-to-day life.

But, but, but, but I used it to do Uznair :c

That being said, yeah, it was quite rarely used to be honest, you're right. I'm not really one to cry at the changes and even thought it surprised me, I thought meh, we'll work around that lol

[Darkstride]

It gives you some kind of barrier now I think... Maybe? I hope? I really don't know

The patch notes tell you specifically.