an idea for the egi system

[Taranok]

Honestly I think they need to drop the pet entirely. Either it's going to be the mindless auto attacking system from before or it's going to be the new system with horrible pet AI/interaction. Personally I'm biased to the idea I thought of where our damage over times are replaced with summone egi's attacking the target for the same effect, but besides that I agree with Demi summons being amazing. I really want bahamut to get the same treatment as firebird where our ruin/outburst spells are replaced with an attack through the summon as well.

Also for the love of the twelve can we please have DWT synch back up with spending aetherflow? It feels so disjointed now and like I said before aetherflow now isn't tied to the act of summoning at all like it was before.

The funny thing is, if you actually wanted to optimize summoner play, you had to micro-manage the pet in ARR, SB, and especially HW to maximize its DPS because of contagion, and the UI in ShB for controlling the pet is about 3 orders of magnitude better than it was from ARR through Stormblood, to give you an idea of just how bad it was. But I digress.

I agree that I want the egis removed and the class focused around the trance system with augmented rotations and spells based on which pet is out. Some can be mindless, while others could be thoughtful, all depending on which demi is out to match its personality.

What Summoner really needs is a bottom-up redesign to scrap all of the old, original poison mage/pet designs that were done because the devs didn't know how to make a proper summoner for FFXIV at the time, and just make the class a coherent experience. They did it with Machinist, they can do it with Summoner. And if they really wanted to, they could even change the class off the books or split Scholar into its own standalone job to fully differentiate everything, and just find other ways to rewrite the lore to make sense.

Like, when you look at the class, you see a class of many different eras. Poison mage (DoTs), Aetherflow (something to do when not maintaining DoTs), Trances (something to do when you didn't have aetherflow up), Trances being used to summon Demis, and trances directly augmenting your primary GCD rotation, as well as the spells used.

As you can see, even though Trances have started as one thing, it's become a core part of the class, and arguably the better, more interesting part of the class.