Egi Glamours

[dinnertime]

Apparently creating another egi-glamour and make them accessible to player is too hard for SE (far harder than creating a completely new system specifically designed for bard's performance) despite we already see another carbuncle with different color used by npc...?
who knows...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It obviously takes more to implement than BRD perfromance if you compare how many new assets they have to create. They don't even make their own soundfonts, they just use a third-party one. All they really do is model a new instrument and then create a playing pose and animation for said instrument. I already mentioned how much it takes for a new Egi and it's obviously more, so I'm not sure about your snarkiness here lol.

Besides Carbuncles in more different colors isn't what people really want. They want Ramuh, Leviathan, Shiva etc. Still, I think they should update the system if they can or willing, because it has no UI or anything.

Edit: I didn't realize they're adding so many things to bard performance now so oops! but I was more on the line of adding new instruments vs new Egis. Still, I really wonder if they just gave up on Egi glams because that's what it looks like right now.

[Endariel]

I don't think we will get egi glams as the Devs are clearly aiming to add more demi summons which will slowly replace egis

[Eloah]

This was brought up during interviews before the launch of Shadowbringers. I don't know the exact phrasing or what they are shooting for, but it was mentioned that they are working on it, but don't want to release any info until something solid is in place. I don't think they commented on its priority status, but it was hinted it as being up there. And this might just be me being hopeful, but I think a 5.X release was being pushed for.

As for the info, just search for the interviews, specifically the ones from youtubers, like Larry, those are where the hints came from.

[AbeBanks]

We need new pets not just some fancy glamours

[Aomine1992]

Y’all not getting that egi glamour lol SMN has way more pressing issues.

SE is still trying to fix their out of wack pet AI so I wouldn’t hold my breath honestly as they have been fixing that AI since ARR....and the AI has a much bigger priority then glams especially since they are a pretty small company

[Nalien]

I don't think we will get egi glams as the Devs are clearly aiming to add more demi summons which will slowly replace egis

I don't know about this. The progression of Egi to Demi seems fairly sensible to me, more so because the Egi are effectively just another DoT spell, while the Demi are part of the actual Summoner rotation. That limits how many Demi you can have, a Bahamut to Phoenix rotation works fairly well (from a thematic standpoint), mixing Ifrit/Garuda/Titan Demi into that would just bloat the rotation to a ridiculous level. Only way they can really do more Demi is with a Demi-Glamour system, which I admit would have worked when Summoner only had Bahamut, but now that we get Phoenix as well, there is a clear theme with the Demi summons, not to mention Job Gauges would need a complete redesign for each new Demi. That strikes me as far more work, for less pay off (Demi are out for a set duration, Egi can be out indefinitely), than just giving us the main 6 Primals as Egi and saving bigger Primals for flashier skills.

Y’all not getting that egi glamour lol SMN has way more pressing issues.

Somehow I doubt the people who work on Glamour level content are the same people working on Job balance issues. Having someone design new Egi and work them into the game comes at the expense of things like new enemy models, the team in charge of balance and combat shouldn't really be involved at all, given almost all the assets already exist. Names of moves already all exist, most of the animations would just be scaled down versions of the moves from the Trials. The only work to be done is by the art team, designing the Egi models where needed (again, we already have Ramuh-Egi since 2.3), and designing the icons for the moves. That's not work for the battle team.

[dinnertime]

My wish is they rework Egi into being like Demi except there's really no progression involved to summon them just like Egi, so it's favorable to use them during Demi downtimes. Let's be real Egi are problematic right now and SE might be readying to get rid of the system as a whole, hence they've been so quiet about Egi glams. Even with the current problems (which hopefully get fixed), Demi summons are looking more promising as a pet concept.

But yeah, I'm pretty sure two separate teams work on job balance and whatever team worked on the Egi glams, but they all probably share a same resource as a division team. I agree with some posters here that they should put that effort and resource into fixing the job first.

[Cled-cat]

Yeah I’m getting pretty fed up with the false promises the dev team likes to peddle on a lot of things. They’ll likely do the same with a multitude of other wanted features they spoke about, like changing eye colour in the Aesthetician, and adding more wearable hats and BOUGHT hairstyles on Viera/Hrothgar (that still infuriates me, if they’re not going to add the premium hairstyles many of us already spent money on they should refund us). The devs have been enjoying blowing smoke up our behinds recently, it’s really not cute with the absurd amount of money and popularity this game generates.

[FF16Necromancer]

Can we see an update on this finally? Even just a word that it's still a thing that's being done? I've been waiting since 2.x for a Leviathan/Ramuh/Shiva Egi...

I find the "It's not a priority because it's only something for Summoner" line of argument the developers gave us in the past to be a fairly weak one now, given Bard sees damn near consistent updates to Performance. This, for example, looks like a fairly great and in depth addition for Performance, with new assets and systems to help improve a Bard only feature... Meanwhile Ramuh-Egi assets have been in the game since 2.3 and it's too much work to let us access them because it's "only for Summoner"? Come on...

Yeah, not going to happen :/ They're prioritizing other stuff like UI adjustments first. If it even happens it will probably be 6.x