(07-29-2013, 06:24 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote: I'm kind of assuming that a lot of what the Summoner will do is healing, buffing, and micro managing their pet while casting debuffs or dots on enemies, and if a lot of that requires me to actually have line of sight on my pet, then I'm sorry but that's more important than a larger pet making you have to adjust your camera angle.
I know they were used as healers a lot in FFXI though with the focus on DoTs and debuffs I have a feeling summoners in ARR may be a bit more like Warlocks from WoW. With that being said it's just my opinion from what I know about the class and we will all find out in phase 4. (Unless I have missed something along the way and it's very likely as I haven't been keeping up with summoner and such.) As for needing line of sight of your pet or to target them to pull of some abilities. Well it may be something we need to consider but I doubt that will be the case but just like saying that you need the pet to be bigger so you can pick it out in a crowd is kind of a poor excuse for a couple of reasons.Â
1) As stated they do seem to float quite high off the ground. (Granted this may not be the case for all of them though.)
2) If you can't pick them out because of all the weapon/spell effects going of then go into your settings turn some of them off.
3) The summons have a pretty distinct look to them so couple that with turning off effects from other players should make them easier to spot.
4) Multiple summoners due to a large group for a raid/FATE or still having trouble after turning off effects from other players? You can easily make a macro to target the Egi.
I understand that a larger pet could make things easier to pick them out yes and please understand that steps can be taken on both sides for various reasons. You could turn spell effects off to better find your Egi while I could turn them off so there isn't another glowing thing in my face.
I'll I'm saying is that the road goes both ways that steps that the melee can take to avoid the Egi being annoying can also be applied to help the summoner keep track of their Egi.