(07-29-2013, 06:05 PM)Azthran Wrote: Again it's not much different than having a player get in your way. Also as mentioned summoners only harness a sliver of the primal's power and from a lore point of view this may just be as much of that power as a summoner can handle without risk of losing control.
I could agree to the lore point of view of them being small because it's all we could handle, but that's just trying to use hand wavery to explain a design team decision that had nothing to do with lore. Hvirine stated that they were larger at one point, but for one reason or another they made them smaller without any insight into why they were made smaller. Maybe it was for the reasons expressed here about line of sight or something, though I honestly just don't see the line of sight thing being that big a deal if the increases being suggested in the feedback forums.
I will say this though, if they create a decent pet interface I'll be able to live with the tiny Egis, but from what I've seen from the Chocobo Companion my hopes are not very high. 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 will correct myself however, I watched the videos that showed some of the Egis in them and they do actually float a bit higher than I had originally thought (about as high as shown in the images), however with that in mind size doesn't really matter, they'll block your line of sight no matter what.
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