Mr.Happy Interview with Yoshi P

[ForteNightshade]

I don't play SMN, though I know a few people who are very fond of the job. I think an egi glamour system should be added - it's been a common request for a while now and the development team created the perform function for BRD so it can't be a matter of not wanting one job to get special treatment over others.

To be fair, you'll find many more Bards screaming to give make Foe's Requiem than you will those proclaiming how great Perform is. They never really asked for a unique function entirely separate from combat.

[Awha]

I have a friend that memes if they get rid if pets they will become a full time arcnist main.

[Nayout]

It only took two expansions to update a system that promised a lot but ended in nothing.

[BlitzAceRush]

SMN is kind of a mess right now, while it may function the Egi's are kind of just there, and while many like the Dmi's they're designed them into a corner, like all job SMN will expect new stuff and "3 Minutes into your rotation you'll get Alexander!" Will only get worse with each future expansion, really does need a rework.
Given they're pausing the glams it either means they'll not be needed at all, or Egi's or whatever the becom if the stay will look so different anything they made or were making now would be redundant.

[Shougun]

I've long thought the reason egi glam has sat on the back burner for so long is because they're trying to find the place it makes sense. Say if they add glamour and then suddenly change the system, will the glamour system even make sense anymore? Did the glamour system just chain down some of their options? It could very well get in the way of potential design visions, if that's what they're doing.

It would be epic to see some crazy new system for Summoner that makes it all go "thank god they didn't just rush another system on top of it, this is awesome". Of course it would be nice to see some traction on something lol, as the glamour can itself has been kicked down the road quite a few times .

[DontReadThis]

Sounds like they're redesigning summoner in a way that would invalidate the current egi-glamour system.

I could see them changing the egis from permanent pets into spell effects.
It would fall in line with a redesign where instead of learning to summon the egi, the summoner learns the primal's signature attack, and the egi appears as a visual effect during the casting animation to suggest that the attack is originating from them and not the caster.
An example would be casting Rumuh's signature attack from the franchise: Judgement Bolt. The casting graphic would appear as Ramuh manifesting next to you, and then the final spell graphic when you finish the cast would be Ramuh launching the lightning from his staff.

It would be in line with the other depictions of summoners in the franchise where they repeatedly call upon summons to deal devastating attacks over and over again, or it would at least more faithful than permanently summoning red peppers, chicken nuggets, and a chicken.

[Sotaris]

Yes, we can all speculate about his vagueness answer. I kinda lowkey already gave up after naively hoping for more since 2015.

[WhyAmIHere]

maybe this thing about demi-phoenix combined with demi-bahamut is the push that they're basing a redesign around? cast your dots, use a ruin spell or whatever, bada bing an ifrit spell uses ifrit-egi, then he fades away.

Like maybe treat the egis as lesser summons that are there for short, 1-2 GCD blips, then they just disappear without any pizzazz. Would allow them to rekajigger the entire kit and not completely waste the assets they have already.

[SturmChurro]

Does anyone have this full interview in text? I don't want to watch that.

In regards to this:

Egi Glamour has been a long time request from the players and is frequently a topic you are
questioned about in interviews. It has been awhile since we’ve heard about it, so I was
wondering where the team stands on the development of this feature?

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.

The number of jobs in the game continues to rise, making it more and more difficult to obtain
weapons from Extreme Trials. Are there any changes planned to make gathering weapons from
Extreme Trials more consistent outside of our current systems? It took me 92 kills before I saw a
Monk weapon drop from Emerald Weapon!

Yes, the team and myself do realize that we’re hitting a tipping point with this, and we’ll most
likely start transitioning over to a new system. I will announce the details when the time comes
on a Letter LIVE or other official platforms, so please stay tuned.

can't wait to see what they do.

How much more is there to this interview aside from this?