(07-29-2013, 04:46 PM)Hyrist Wrote: I'd rather them the size they are now, functional and non-interfering, then increase their size and have them become cumbersome.
See this is an excuse a lot of people use that just isn't the case. It's falsified speculation that just because they're larger than they are now they'd be obstructing peoples views or getting in the way of their DPS or whatever. How would them being the same size as a Hyur be any different than if there was a character standing there instead? It would be the difference of a Lalafell standing next to you turning into a Hyur, does that make things suddenly harder for you to play your class? You can't even use the excuse of visual effects because they're no more flashy than any class spamming weapon skills or spells. The only person that could be affected by the increased size would be a Cat with ADHD that is easily distracted by shiny things.
As far as as it being a confidence thing? Mm, maybe. For me though it's less about confidence and more about expectations. Summoner isn't a class you start the game with, it's a class you don't even gain access to until you're close to end game. Summons are the equivalent of endgame pets, and in every other game I've played the pet class always started something small (like Carbuncle) and once they reach end game they usually had something large and impressive. Examples being the Felguard in WoW, the Thrall of Wrath in TERA, pretty much every Elemental the Spiritmaster could use endgame in Aion, all of the Summons in FFXI, I could go on.
There's nothing wrong with Carbuncle at all, but for creatures that represent HUGE Primals, even as a sliver of their power I'd expect something much larger than what we have, and for them being end game pets they're very unimpressive as far as size goes. As I said earlier, they're the same size as Minions are, and I honestly don't want to be able to compare the size of my Ifrit pet to my Cherry Bomb Minion.
tldr; Increasing Egi size doesn't hurt anything, this is misleading and inaccurate. Making them the same size as a player character wold go a long way to making them look more impressive but wouldn't detriment players ability to work around them in a fight.
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