Fellow SMNs, why can't we use our shield when we want to?

[Cabalabob]

Calling Carbuncle a 'summon' is already laughable given the actual in-game lore (not that SE has cared about that for this job in years), but it already has nothing to do besides stand around and be a blood sacrifice to demi summon. It has no attacks, no real utility except to steal the ability of a different egi we've had for years, and no way to actually add anything without it feeling like crap because of the demi summoning mechanic.

Carbuncle is a glorified emergency ration, it already has nothing to do with "summoning."

And yet you want to take even more away from it. If you don’t like summoner you can play machinist with a minion out you know.

[Ayden]

Having to re-summon carbuncle after death/changing job is bad. Simply remove carbuncle, and have Smns do the Radiant Aegis themselves with carbuncle animation.


Just like Dreadwyrm Trance, while we are casting Radiant Aegis, Carbuncle can appear briefly on top of our head.

It will be more satisfying to use the shield when needed and not like 20 seconds earlier before anything happens.

[wereotter]

If you don't have Carbuncle you can't use Carbuncle's buff.

Oh, wait, no they changed that because it was annoying to use. It's not even "carbuncles" shield since it used to be Titan's ability. It has nothing to do with the rat other than SE decided it has to. They can just as easily make it not use the rat and nothing of value would be lost.

Did you clear the first floor of Abyssos? I promise. Carbuncle can put up shields. The old version might have been tied to Titan, but the job got reworked. This one is tied, at least for now, to Carbuncle. And as I said, too, it's the only thing the summon does. Carbuncle was historically a defensive summon, so this latest version is more in line with how it should be.

[Emitans]

Not being able to use a defensive cooldown because we're following our incredibly strict rotation feels pretty bad. The good thing is that the shield lasts 30 seconds so with encounter knowledge it shouldn't be a problem most of the time, but there's no reason for a personal defensive to be unusable other than being on cooldown.