I recently leveled smn back up to try it out and I really like it, i dropped it when stormblood released because it felt wonky and picked up rdm and never looked back, currently working towards the smn anima book.
The jobs attack animations are cool, slamming the book on dudes and having a rush attack brings automatic smiles and seeing all the primals get summoned(although i shrunk them) is epic.
But then there's carbuncle...
The poor lil guy is just sorta "there", just nervously twitching, with this ominous look on his face, carby doesnt need battle updates, its the base for all the summons, it does enough, carby needs life updates.
like, carbuncle is always with you, it should have a bit more emotion than it does, most minions seem more attached to me than my own carbuncle that i summoned, even my chocobo keeps an eye on me.
firstly, why does carbuncle stay so far behind the character? you have to bring the camera all the way back to spot your carbuncle, just bringing the lil dude closer would help alot.
maybe in non fightin situations they could be given whatever code some of the minions use, carbuncle quite frankly right now is dumb, and i feel bad for him, you cant pet the carbuncle, well, you can but it wont respond, you cant call one over, they dont anything quirky.....except twitch, they're just a magical lump.
It would be so cool if they did something neat when you pet one, or when you idle they start walking around or floating, or run up the character and perch on their shoulder or head like certain minions do.
it just seems odd you can summon a.....I dont know what exactly carbuncle is? but whatever it is it feels like since its sort of a part of the character it should have more personality, considering they can be glamoured, bolting different moods to emerald/topaz and ruby would be a cool and simple way for players to express themselves through carbuncle.