Pet Food to use for Wyvern

[LancerLeon]

Dear SE,
As the +2 set of Lancer's gear involves your wyvern to be available. I was wondering if it might be possible to make a food or make BST pet food for use for the wyvern. The poor little guy never really stands a chance vs AoE NM's/HNM's.

Thanks for your time,
Chita -Phoenix

[Wenceslao]

Unless you set stonesking on your wyvern via spirit link (with empathy) our beloved wyvern don't have a change of survive many HNM or NM AoE.

[Vandheer]

I don't think Wyvern would stand a chance even with food. :S Any one else have any opinions on that?

[Fusionx]

Empyrean Head and Spirit Link are really all we have.. and at most times I feel that's ok. In abyssea atma effects carry over to the pet so that's something to consider in there...

Maybe instead of healing items give us a shortened call wyvern time? Or something similar to what PUP got in one of the last updates.

[Troca]

Speaking of, is there a reason pets can't be healed by the standard healing spells that affect players? They're so fragile as is I can't imagine it being some strange balance issue.

[Vandheer]

I think that might have something to do with pets tanking? I'm not sure though.

[Troca]

But healing brings so much enmity that a pet wouldn't realistically be able to hold the enemy's attention anyway. Wyverns don't have a provoke equivalent of any type, do they?

[Vandheer]

Your right that they don't but I was referring to PUP, BST, and SMN. If Wyverns were allowed to be healed then the same rule would have to apply to other pet jobs. For instance if PUP could have someone cure their Valloredge Frame it be more realistic as a tankish role.

[Troca]

Seems to me the problem's at the root of how pets are coded, than.

Code wyverns to be healable, Puppets not to be, and treat everything else on an individual basis.

Automatons are machines, anyway, and summoner monsters (dunno what they're called yet) are... ghosty... things....

But wyverns are flesh and blood dragons. Who can't realistically tank, anyway.

[Dais]

I wonder how balanced it would be to give the wyvern a large damage resistance trait against only attacks not directly targeting it?