Thread: Friend Eidolons: A Guide to being a Good Friend

Originally Posted by sanahtlig

Preliminary evidence (2 runs with an account set to 6 different primary eidolons of one element) suggests the friend eidolon priority isn't based on the eidolon's characteristics at all, but instead on the party letter they're assigned to. A gets priority over B, B over C, etc. I'll need one more data point to confirm this (I shifted the eidolon in group C to group B, and the eidolon in B to C, with group A as my active party). I've done my testing with all LV1, LB0 eidolons, so it's still possible that such parameters could take priority and I've simply blinded myself to them. Further testing (two additional data points) would be required to rule this possibility out.

I was about to post on this point that this is what I also found, that the priority falls on the main eidolon in order of Party Letter. I changed between 4 different dark eidolons in Party A and it reflected what was shown to my friends (observed via alt account in real time, updated nearly instantly.) When I removed a dark eidolon from Party A completely, the dark eidolon I have in Party B showed up for friends.

That's a really nice find. I wouldn't have thought about the party itself as priority. Hopefully more players tune into this topic. I've had to remove a few friends the past few days already with their Diabolos and Light/Dark disasters cluttering up my list.

bout that, one question.

The problem is, my friends see my Diablos eido, even if i DONT even put her in the list (changed her with Apo naturally)
even if i remove all eidolons from list and then re-add (w/o Diablo ofc), its still Diablos, not Apo

any suggestions?

Originally Posted by AutoCrimson

bout that, one question.

The problem is, my friends see my Diablos eido, even if i DONT even put her in the list (changed her with Apo naturally)
even if i remove all eidolons from list and then re-add (w/o Diablo ofc), its still Diablos, not Apo

any suggestions?

you did it with all 6 teams?

i dont even planned any other team, too lazy

ohh, it seems the game creates all parties automatically, with Diablo being the top eido

Originally Posted by AutoCrimson

i dont even planned any other team, too lazy

ohh, it seems the game creates all parties automatically, with Diablo being the top eido

yup, all teams will be with lancelot as soul and diabolos as main eidolon unless you edit them yourself.
that why changing just 1 team won't change it, you need to change all the 6..
if you're too lazy just do auto-setting

but why in hell the other team's eido should affect my current team ffs... anyways, just changed it, will see how it will be

Originally Posted by AutoCrimson

bout that, one question.

The problem is, my friends see my Diablos eido, even if i DONT even put her in the list (changed her with Apo naturally)
even if i remove all eidolons from list and then re-add (w/o Diablo ofc), its still Diablos, not Apo

any suggestions?

I'm a bit skeptical that friend eidolons update in real-time. Wait a day and see if you get the same result (you shouldn't).

Originally Posted by sanahtlig

I'm a bit skeptical that friend eidolons update in real-time. Wait a day and see if you get the same result (you shouldn't).

I shouldn't have used "real time," but rather, whenever the servers get updated with account activity, which can be fairly quickly (shown under the Friends tag like "2 minutes ago"). I was testing by having both main and alt accounts playing at the same time, with main account (as a friend) queued up in the Support Eidolons list of my alt account. I played around with changing the main eidolons in the different parties on my main, and simply backed out of the quest queue and then re-entered on alt. Main friend is still a support option (since I never chose it for a stage), however, the eidolons in the given elements were changing.

Yes, it should be a rather quick change. I use to do so before the element tab was changed. Used my alt when my other supports didn't have a light eidolon which I would just change my alt to Phoenix.

For AutoCrimson's issue, I find it weird that your friends see Diabolos when you say you have Apocalypse set up, unless you mean as a sub eidolon, cause you sub eidolons don't matter. Or unless you literally went straight to using team set B and left Diabolos on A...