Thoughts on Summoner Egi SizeFollow

I take protest to the idea of 'common sentiment' the problem with this, as is with any forum, is that it can only represent the most vocal minority. Polling, however, is more anonymous and often can be done without coming under persecution, which, from my perspective, eases the availability to state opinion or share one's thoughts on the matter.

So while we can have what seems to be a large number of people decrying something, the larger number of people who are ok with it usually don't speak up.

This fails to be acknowledged when we seek confirmation bias - because we want to be 'right' as much as possible. This is where I get annoyed. We're too afraid as individuals to simply be wrong, or to simply stand on our own two feet in an argument these days, that we have to find some outside form of validation.

As far as the matter of whether or not the summoner's Egi's needs an adjustment? I feel apathetic on the issue. I am fine as they are, and my interest in Arcanist/Summoner has not changed. There should be no need for insulting or trying to assemble an intimidation crowd to bring what is effectively a personal aesthetic request.

I can understand the reasoning on SE's end for the down-scaling. I can understand the reasoning on the player's end for wanting them larger. My personal views on the matter is that I'm indifferent. I'm fine with the way they are, but I admonish the level of animosity and mob-forming being presented concerning them. This is not a matter to be outraged upon, in my opinion. The actual power of the class isn't being put into question, just the appearance of which. It does not feel like a consequential debate, but one of tastes.

It's like asking them to redesign Ifrit's spear because it's ugly.

I thought the dev's reasoning for not making them big/the real thing was because they didn't want so many large summons running around.

I tend to agree, with respect to the lore, it kills immersion. (Sorry, Wint!)

I went to the Japanese forums and read their comments, and from that I made a statement. You looked at the wording of the poll answers and decided the poll was worthless and so were the results.

Some excerpts from the responses:

-Was not disappointed
-I thought this production is good personally.
-Manifestation of power that are causative is 'size', which do no contradiction that way then yearn! (size =! power)
-When it comes to Summoner of high-level, to be able to use "fire of hell â—‹" is Ifrit-Egi. They consume a large amount of MP, using Ifrit-Egi is to Ifrit only for a moment to add summoned along with the magic square. And after activation powerful technique, back to Ifrit-Egi. I saw such a dream (It would be nice if they became the large version just to cast Hellfire, etc)


This said, there are not many responses to this thread, because its probably poorly auto-translated and not prime-Japanese-forum-time yet.

Sidenote - grats on green Shadow.

I did, my original post stated that I thought they could be bigger... and you're original post made the comment "Japanese don't think large = strong" etc.

I was making a point of response to each element of your OP.

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My bad, my bad



We have more in common than you know..

I applaud everyone for staying on track after that very early comment.