Mr.Happy Interview with Yoshi P

[_Koneko_]

It needs enough to let me summon Hydaelyn and shatter my enemies into multiple dimensions.

you can't divide by zero silly

[BunniEclair]

The only time I touch SMN is to cap it but he’s got me really curious...
At least people have their egi glam answer for the time being. Kinda sounds like they stopped working on them because they won’t be necessary with whatever they’ve cooked up for the rework.

Edit: Also, I haven’t really been paying attention to this aspect but it just dawned on me that they don’t have a dedicated play test team, contracted or otherwise. So the people who create the game are also the ones testing it, which is kind of wild to me.

[Ravor]

I also just watched the interview, and concerning the egi glamour wass perhaps the only think i really didnt understand about........ will anyone kindly explain what is egi glamour? (sorry i am new player and i have leveled my summoner to lvl 80 but didnt use it again because its not my play style)

Also concerning the interview, i also hope they make critical enggagement more of a recurring thing, its very fun and full of potential XD

[Axxion]

I also just watched the interview, and concerning the egi glamour wass perhaps the only think i really didnt understand about........ will anyone kindly explain what is egi glamour? (sorry i am new player and i have leveled my summoner to lvl 80 but didnt use it again because its not my play style)

Also concerning the interview, i also hope they make critical enggagement more of a recurring thing, its very fun and full of potential XD

you just made your standard summons like ifrit be a different color carbuncle

[BunniEclair]

I also just watched the interview, and concerning the egi glamour wass perhaps the only think i really didnt understand about........ will anyone kindly explain what is egi glamour? (sorry i am new player and i have leveled my summoner to lvl 80 but didnt use it again because its not my play style)

Also concerning the interview, i also hope they make critical enggagement more of a recurring thing, its very fun and full of potential XD

Egi glam is being able to glam over the SMN pets- so to change their pet’s appearance. Carbuncles are egi glams, but there was talk of making more for them and it just never happened.

[Puremallace]

Why not mention how the current glamour system is just busted and extremely limited? I mean for god sake Yoshi P has played WoW so he has to know how vastly superior that system is compared to this outdated stuff. I mean come on guys.

[StriderShinryu]

Why not mention how the current glamour system is just busted and extremely limited? I mean for god sake Yoshi P has played WoW so he has to know how vastly superior that system is compared to this outdated stuff. I mean come on guys.

MrHappy isn't a glamour driven player for the most part so it's likely he probably didn't think of the gear glamour systems at all given the limited amount of questions he could ask. I think the only reason he even asked about Egi glamour is because it's kind of been a running joke with him for years now and this was something of his chance to put it to rest.

[ForteNightshade]

"Currently summoner as a job is reaching somewhat of a breaking point when it comes to the
overall play mechanics, so we’ve halted work on Egi glamour for the time being in order to shift
focus. There is a reason behind this, but we can’t share the details with you at the moment.
When the time comes, I’ll be sure to properly share that information with everyone."

Very curious. Is this the overhaul I've been waiting for? I hope so.

My going theory for Summoner is they intend to abandon Egis entirely and move towards Demi-Summons. Not only are they quite popular but the devs have routine said how much they detest pets. I wouldn't be surprised if said Demi-Summoners are more like Queen and Fray, where you don't control them. They essentially do their own thing and peace out.

It certainly fits the identity better than current Summoner who is more recognizable as a DoT mage half the time.

Why not mention how the current glamour system is just busted and extremely limited? I mean for god sake Yoshi P has played WoW so he has to know how vastly superior that system is compared to this outdated stuff. I mean come on guys.

Because Happy has no interest whatsoever in glamour. Since he has a limited amount of questions, he'll naturally pick aspect of the game he's interested in.

[Vahlnir]

My going theory for Summoner is they intend to abandon Egis entirely and move towards Demi-Summons. Not only are they quite popular but the devs have routine said how much they detest pets. I wouldn't be surprised if said Demi-Summoners are more like Queen and Fray, where you don't control them. They essentially do their own thing and peace out.

It certainly fits the identity better than current Summoner who is more recognizable as a DoT mage half the time.

This is what I've been hoping for. Summoner needs its identity back.

[wereotter]

This is what I've been hoping for. Summoner needs its identity back.

So... back to summons just being one-time big damage spells? Because that's what they were in most games from FF4-FF9, and to a lesser degree in 12 and 13

You'd still need something else to do between summoning in the creatures to do their big damage effects.