"Puppetmasters can now use the weapon skill Asuran Fists."

[Horadrim]

So, I started my morning pawning over data that's emerging about Geomancer (there's tons) and Rune Fencer (surprisingly little) on my way out to work.

After arriving in the office, I started eating my breakfast and sip-sipping on my coffee as I looked through forum posts on other sites and noticed people asking abut BLU spells. Someone replied to the effect of "Nothing yet, the only job with an adjustment was PUP"

*Metal Gear Exclamation Point Sound Effect!*

So I opened up the version update details and searched Puppetmaster to find the line in question and began flailing with excitement at my desk.

I know its not that big of a deal, but seriously -- its about damn time. This makes me happy out of general principle.

[Nezha]

I really don't understand why now. In all honesty, this seems to be a common theme, PUP doesn't get much of anything in an update, so SE gives us some random thing that maybe we wanted a long time ago, but so late that there is little to no relevance anymore... What about the new attachments and a decisively better animator than LV71 Animator +1 from just one of the mobs... Hopefully they have something in store though...

[Horadrim]

I really don't understand why now. In all honesty, this seems to be a common theme, PUP doesn't get much of anything in an update, so SE gives us some random thing that maybe we wanted a long time ago, but so late that there is little to no relevance anymore... What about the new attachments and a decisively better animator than LV71 Animator +1 from just one of the mobs... Hopefully they have something in store though...

Blue Procs, most likely.

Meanwhile, yeah... Adoulin really needs to add new attachments and animators. I still want a Magian animator trial set. An Empyrean Animator is long overdue.

In the mean time, I'm going to be working on Rune Fencer -- hopefully I'll get it use it in Abyssea to finish my PUP gear and such. I'm going to hold off on doing SoA missions until I finish everything else... Hopefully i don't end up having to change main jobs (right now PUP is my main, RUN will likely be one of my mains as well, and then I want 1 more -- maybe Paladin if things are better for it.)

[SpankWustler]

I assume Puppetmaster is being given Asuran Fists only now because the content in Adoulin will be moving people further away from content where Asuran Fists is a Hand-to-Hand proc that Puppetmaster lacked.

BALANCE.

[Karah]

Really brings up nostalgia... I remember specifically lol'ing when they added pup way back;

"You mean they added a new h2h job and it's best ws is Raging fists/Dragon kick!!? who would play that."

5 years later, better than never, right?

[Karbuncle]

Then stringing Pummel came along and laughed at your sh*tty Asuran Fists.

And ironically still stands as the best h2h WS in the game (with 99 Kenkonken)

[Nezha]

Well PUP can cycle procs when soloing, so this was never an issue... And after like 3 years of abyssea people have to be done... Because if this was truly for blue procs they would have done that when the proc system was invented.

[Helyos]

Because if this was truly for blue procs they would have done that when the proc system was invented.

lol, do you really think so?

[Horadrim]

lol, do you really think so?

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[Zagen]

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