What Is Gonna Happen To Egis?

[Styrmwyda]

I noticed that Emerald Carbuncle (which I assume is one of the Egis using a Egi glamour) didn't really do much when in its base form in the trailers. While the new summoner abilities are really cool (especially the Vortical, Craggy, and Infernal Trances), I still hope Ifrit-Egi, Titan-Egi, and Garuda-Egi still have a place in the game, even if it's just passive buffs.

[MercuryD]

Carbuncle is your pet, you can glamour him to look like the 3 current egi if you want. He didn't attack or anything in the showcase but if he does do anything it will likely be auto attacks only.

[Styrmwyda]

Carbuncle is your pet, you can glamour him to look like the 3 current egi if you want. He didn't attack or anything in the showcase but if he does do anything it will likely be auto attacks only.

Do you have confirmation on Carbuncle being your only pet? Because that would mess with the abilities you get at certain SMN quests. What I think is more likely is that, similar to Eos and Selene being made the same in Shadowbringers, Summon I (Emerald Carbuncle and later Garuda Egi), Summon II (Topaz Carbuncle and later Titan Egi), and Summon III (Ifrit Egi) will be functionally the same in Endwalker, with you still being able to glamour them as a Carbuncle.

[Seraphor]

Do you have confirmation on Carbuncle being your only pet? Because that would mess with the abilities you get at certain SMN quests. What I think is more likely is that, similar to Eos and Selene being made the same in Shadowbringers, Summon I (Emerald Carbuncle and later Garuda Egi), Summon II (Topaz Carbuncle and later Titan Egi), and Summon III (Ifrit Egi) will be functionally the same in Endwalker, with you still being able to glamour them as a Carbuncle.

There was only one pet summon ability shown.
Instead of being Egis, Garuda, Titan and Ifrit have new summon skills that fit into your rotation.

[MercuryD]

Do you have confirmation on Carbuncle being your only pet? Because that would mess with the abilities you get at certain SMN quests. What I think is more likely is that, similar to Eos and Selene being made the same in Shadowbringers, Summon I (Emerald Carbuncle and later Garuda Egi), Summon II (Topaz Carbuncle and later Titan Egi), and Summon III (Ifrit Egi) will be functionally the same in Endwalker, with you still being able to glamour them as a Carbuncle.

After the break following part 1 Yoshida said "I misspoke about egi glamour, the egi doesn't glamour into carbuncle, it's the reverse. Carbuncle in your base pet and you can change its appearance."

Plus, all tooltips shown involving pets name Carbuncle directly as a requirement for summoning.

[Roda]

In the benchmark, ifrit egi was there and was autoattacking the target. I hope the stationary pet on guard was only dev tool nonsense causing things to not behave as they normally would. 'Cause I still want my pet class dammit.

[Dyvid]

As far as we know, Egi's are just gloried minions that follow you around and are a place holder for Demi and Primal stance.

[Flynn89]

We're gonna eat them.

[Ailuron]

In the benchmark, ifrit egi was there and was autoattacking the target. I hope the stationary pet on guard was only dev tool nonsense causing things to not behave as they normally would. 'Cause I still want my pet class dammit.

yesssss I see a lot of people saying good riddance to pets.. but the rework means you're essentially a caster that channel primals, otherwise known as 3 different modes/phases.. It wouldnt make any difference what so ever whether Ifrit/Titan/Garuda showed up for their glorious 2 whole seconds or not.. before you go back to casting spells by yourself (including the primal-themed spells you get depending on what mode you're in).. It may be more faithful to traditional summoners in other FF games.. but its absolutely not a "summoner" that Summons things anymore.. Its just fancy flavorful spells that match 1 of 3 primals... Would losing all that make SMNs unique (pets and dots) be worth it? I doubt they would hold up against, say, a BLM in Dps still even after being shoved into a more traditional caster mold.

Yet again.. im new to FFXIV. Have to give it a try when its released to see.. but this and SCH's combat peloton. .

[Blackcanary]

yesssss I see a lot of people saying good riddance to pets.. but the rework means you're essentially a caster that channel primals, otherwise known as 3 different modes/phases.. It wouldnt make any difference what so ever whether Ifrit/Titan/Garuda showed up for their glorious 2 whole seconds or not.. before you go back to casting spells by yourself (including the primal-themed spells you get depending on what mode you're in).. It may be more faithful to traditional summoners in other FF games.. but its absolutely not a "summoner" that Summons things anymore.. Its just fancy flavorful spells that match 1 of 3 primals... Would losing all that make SMNs unique (pets and dots) be worth it? I doubt they would hold up against, say, a BLM in Dps still even after being shoved into a more traditional caster mold.

Yet again.. im new to FFXIV. Have to give it a try when its released to see.. but this and SCH's combat peloton. .

SMN was never a dot class to begin with in any other Final Fantasy game. You can kind of day that it has gone back to its original core from past FF games before FF 10 came out. When smn first came out in FF14 it just felt like a wanna be warlock from WOW with the whole dot system. I just hope eventually you will be able to command the Summons more instead of them appearing and doing a attack and then vanishing like it's OG FF7 or FF8 lol.