ATTN: Community Reps/Dev Team: PUPs of Vanadiel DEMAND a response on Automaton A.I.!

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Originally Posted by Sparthos

You obviously haven't played BST or PUP. There is no "strong offensive output", unless we're talking about punking some terribly geared gimps.

BST is supposed to be a generic DD but since half the class is stashed away on an NPC not receiving buffs, you wind up losing to classes like SAM, WAR, DRK easily.

Even against comparable 1handers like BLU, THF or NIN, the lack of DW and the reliance on 1hand axes - a slow weapon by nature -leaves BST in an uphill climb to keep up. The class has no offensive JAs so unlike WAR your Rampages are going to suck and subbing WAR means losing out on an offhand.

Now, I say to myself "well, BST isn't supposed to be a good DD duh, that's what the pets for." and then you come to the realization that even if the BST gears completely to buff the pet that current gear leaves much to be desired. Pet haste, attack and acc are in short supply, magian axes are pretty much the largest bonuses you can get and such a build will cripple the offensive output of the master.

Backline BST would give the job a niche if anything (like SMN but more focused on DPS rather than hateless damage) but the current environment leaves the class in limbo.

-The pets are too weak to fight on their own.
-The ability to cure status effects is still tied to the Reward timer.
-Offensive pet gear is a nightmare to acquire.
-Pets get smoked even in low haste scenarios where they have the advantage.

If BST had some JAs to reduce it's offensive output in exchange for increasing the pets then perhaps the class would begin the long march out of irrelevance.

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Thank you. Having more than half of your damage output tied to an "other half" that can't receive any buffs seriously gimps pet jobs.

It is possible for them to get buffs too. It can't be said it cannot be programmed. I and many have seen npc's in campaign cast buff spells on beastmaster pets.

Buffs could overpower pet jobs though, haste is the one thing that hurts pet jobs and ranger. I think pets should be able to share out food though and get the affects of dnc sambas like it use to.

yeah I think having pets receive all buffs would be OP, I agree - but some haste would be nice, I mean really, we are the only jobs that can't really haste most of their DD output (other than RNG). In today's low delay game that really hurts us in the parse.

At the very least they need to get serious about adding some more armor that augments pets. Heck even just a reasonably not torturous route to augmenting existing gear with pet enhancing stats would be great.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Please understand that we are not ignoring you, gallivanting off in some other thread. We make sure that most if not all of your feedback is passed on to the appropriate person and if it is not something that we can answer directly, we wait until we receive the proper information so that we can comment.

With that said, making attacks on me or any of the community reps, or even the entire team as a whole will not aid your cause nor will it speed up the rate in which we receive answers that we can provide to you.

As to the topic at hand, it has been reported and we do not yet have a comment that we can make.

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Post like these are pretty helpful if you want to avoid attacks on community reps. At least now I can assume you are doing your work.

The only question that remains, are why some developers can't return any feedback to you. For example, this AI issue is 5 years old. 5. Your developers should already be aware of it. Not having an answer for a 5 year old question, makes one wonder what they do with the stuff you community representatives hand in.

If you could ask them this, and get an answer to why, I'll promote you to god representative.

Camate, while you're on an "answer" roll. . . mind telling me what Building Flourish does and what the progression is between 1, 2, and 3 finishing moves? I have some ideas for how to test it myself, but they would take hours.

It makes me laugh how people see a post from a mod and come asking things that have nothing to do with the thread.

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Originally Posted by Byrth

Camate, while you're on an "answer" roll. . . mind telling me what Building Flourish does and what the progression is between 1, 2, and 3 finishing moves? I have some ideas for how to test it myself, but they would take hours.

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Repeat after me: Next time, I will look for an answer myself before asking.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Building_Flourish has exactly what you're looking for.

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Originally Posted by Olor

yeah I think having pets receive all buffs would be OP, I agree - but some haste would be nice, I mean really, we are the only jobs that can't really haste most of their DD output (other than RNG). In today's low delay game that really hurts us in the parse.

At the very least they need to get serious about adding some more armor that augments pets. Heck even just a reasonably not torturous route to augmenting existing gear with pet enhancing stats would be great.

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All buffs with no repercussions would be overpowered but are we really going to say that dropping Pro/Shell/Barspells and support JAs like Rampart/Warcry/Samba on pets is going to put purists out of business?

Nonsense.

SE already has cures limited to timers on BST/PUP/DRG. Potions were created that would cover the problem of timers being down but they don't stack meaning your pet still has moments of vulnerability like any normal DD.

Either create some stances that promote certain types of pet play or proceed to buff the pets at the cost of the master.

How exactly is it overpowered if a BSTs pet becomes as strong as a human player so long as the master isn't equally powerful given the current restraints on curing said pets?

Ditto on PUP.

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Originally Posted by Madine

Repeat after me: Next time, I will look for an answer myself before asking.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Building_Flourish has exactly what you're looking for.

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You realize he's asking for specific numbers right?

You do realize Byrth is practically the one who discovers half of the numbers on the wiki anyway if that's who I think it is.

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Originally Posted by Seha

It makes me laugh how people see a post from a mod and come asking things that have nothing to do with the thread.

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People wanting answers isn't inherently bad. As is, the job forums can kinda feel like ghost towns with feedback being minimal to non-existent. Even if they started simple threads like, "How do you feel about Blue Mage's Club selection?" can promote conversation and give them things to funnel back. Otherwise, we're kinda shooting in the dark hoping we eventually hit something.

One thing to note when you talk about the blindna over cure, it is not an AI issue, AI technically working as intended, problem is the damage gauge is bugged and never worked, only for cure threshold levels.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Please understand that we are not ignoring you, gallivanting off in some other thread. We make sure that most if not all of your feedback is passed on to the appropriate person and if it is not something that we can answer directly, we wait until we receive the proper information so that we can comment.

With that said, making attacks on me or any of the community reps, or even the entire team as a whole will not aid your cause nor will it speed up the rate in which we receive answers that we can provide to you.

As to the topic at hand, it has been reported and we do not yet have a comment that we can make.

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Flattery will get you everywhere. For example...

Oh all mighty and powerful Community Rep Camate... Please, oh please fulfill the Dark Knight community's request and force the developers to make Insurgency a crit-hit weapon skill. In all you infinite wisdom, I am confident you would be able to convince them to fulfill this one small request. We would be ever so grateful and would kiss the ground you walk on even more than we already do. We thank ye, oh great one.

I'm glad that you took the time to respond so kindly Camate. I know it was a bit demanding of a title, and there were quite a few flared tempers in this thread. Please, by all means, we would love it if you keep us informed of this issue. As you can see, it's one that has been grating on the pup community at large for quite a while now. I'm sure you'd be the ultimate hero of pups everywhere if you can get the dev team to fix this years old buggy A.I.! ^^

(And if the dev team is reluctant, tell them my automaton is waiting with a fully charged Blizzard V surprise for them if they don't~!)

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Originally Posted by Seriha

Speaking as one of those crazy RDM melee advocates, it's not hard finding frustration when we can't even quite settle on what we want, have people storming in calling us retards (Perhaps in far more words), and still feel a bit lost on SE's direction despite years and years of fishing for some kind of acknowledgement. As is, even in those moments of lapsed judgment, I don't think any one of us sane folks hold you guys directly responsible for all the preceding has come to inspire over the years. If anything, we're grateful things have evolved beyond blind POL mails, unanswered other-forum feedback, the odd question at a Community Event or Japanese magazine article, eventually to Twitter, and now here. In acting for the betterment of the game, and at times, no doubt "enduring" us, we thank you.

That said, and with other jobs having Manifesto threads here while RDMs have perhaps refrained, all I can humbly request is some prodding on the job's melee future. Is the intent to leave things as is and full-on embrace the vision mentioned in the manifesto, or might there have been an oversight in conveying the message, as some of us feel that enhancing our party members and enfeebling monsters is not something that can be completely separated from swinging a sword if such mechanics were worthwhile and encouraged by dev attention and future growth.

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In terms of melee RDM, they have worked in some things to allow for melee potential, but you can't just add more and more melee ability without taking balance into account. Enspell tier 2, Composure, and buffs they already have hand make them pretty useful to melee and even take hits.

If you look at the Manifesto as a whole you would see that they are trying to create the defined S rank role for each job. If you take a look at one ability, granted it's timer might be high but the "quick cast" JA they have in mind which they have noted works for jutsu/brd/spells could assist with the RDM/NIN setup of keeping shadows up. Also a quick stoneskin recast, or maybe a quick bind/gravity.

I think RDM's need to realize they are a strong job and they already have the capability to melee, but they shoudln't expect to have the same melee potency as a DD it would just be imbalanced. Unless you don't mind a JA that suppresses all of your enfeebling spells like gravity/para in order to improve your melee capabilities. You just have to consider that melee potential will be give and take. I don't understand why it seems like RDM want to turn into melee when they have a wide range of enfeebles and spells that allow them to solo pretty well. I just hope that the melee RDM suggestions on this forum push SE to change their concept of RDM when it's define trait is it's enfeebling power. To change a job's definition because people want it to melee better just makes no sense when you already have a wide range of melee jobs, if you really want to melee more just pick a DD job since it's the same thing.
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As for the automaton list, thanks for translating it for us I know my friends will make use of it and be grateful to have a clear idea of the exact boost with each one. I"m also certain they would be happy if the Dev teams actually responds in a positive way about changing the logic of the automaton AI. Perhaps as a suggestion you could add some things to the attachments they already have. Such as let's say the Dispel attachment which was a RDM unique spell til SCH was introduced could add a "Magic logic increase", where basically the Dispel attachment makes the magic automaton react more logically with enfeebles and checks for MP and ability to cast spells on the mobs in question.

But ya I"m certain the team is trying to work things out you juts gotta give them time when there are 20 jobs in the game, attempting to balance and make each one unique is quite a tough feat. But if we just wait a week or two we'll hopefully see even more news about the vision of each job and abilities we can look forward to.

People just don't understand that it doesn't make sense to stalk Camate's&co. posts.

If they have something to say they'll post, if not, they won't. Askin the same things in every thread is just pathetic.

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Below Average Melee League

Whoa there, Square Enix, have you
played Puppetmaster lately? Did you
notice our automatons can't even
out-damage a monk or a black mage?
Just how long can we go on playing
Puppetmaster without automatons that
can't even cast Meteor or use Victory
Smite? Why, my mule needed some
Herald's Gaiters off Tiamat and I was
like, "Nope, sorry, I can't solo that.
Blame SE for making PUP a bad job."

I've had it, and so have my fellow PUPs.
We're serious about quitting this game
if you don't give us better automatons.

That was stupid.

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Originally Posted by Airget

I don't understand why it seems like RDM want to turn into melee when they have a wide range of enfeebles and spells that allow them to solo pretty well.

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Hmm, now what's wrong with this statement.

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And you misunderstand the melee Rdm argument. Rdms aren't asking to DD like a DD. We are just asking to at least DD better then a White Mage and a Bard.

With maybe an added bonus of some workable utility on our melee.
(Also, Enspell IIs are crap until they actually fix the accuracy on them and possibly get rid of the stupid damage scaling thingie).

lol'd @ the SimCity blurb. All you need now is the music and the horribly deformed Sims complaining in front of the flashing red background.

PUP and BST aren't just mindlessly complaining though, they have been dealt the worst hands you could possibly get.

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Originally Posted by Airget

In terms of melee RDM, they have worked in some things to allow for melee potential, but you can't just add more and more melee ability without taking balance into account. Enspell tier 2, Composure, and buffs they already have hand make them pretty useful to melee and even take hits.

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Enspell 2's are of questionable design. Composure is nice but not enough to say "this Red Mage in melee gear, with a melee sub and using Composure belongs in the front lines". As far as buffs...what buffs? Refresh (can be spammed from the back and basically needs to be cycled)? Haste (same deal as Refresh)? Gain spells are self-only (thank God), and we're still short Gain DEX and Gain STR. And please refrain from bringing up utility, because utility never justifies lacking damage and/or performance in the front lines.

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I think RDM's need to realize they are a strong job and they already have the capability to melee, but they shoudln't expect to have the same melee potency as a DD it would just be imbalanced.

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Not without the proper balancing mechanics in place. If you don't perform up to par, you don't get invited for that role and are never in consideration for that role. That's the start and the end of it.

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Unless you don't mind a JA that suppresses all of your enfeebling spells like gravity/para in order to improve your melee capabilities.

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I'd be fine with that, provided you have melee-exclusive enfeebles that are relevant to front liners (not just those of us who would be melee'ing on RDM, but also the WARs, SAMs, DRGs, DRKs and so on who are also in the front lines), with a buff to personal damage so that damage from another "real" DD doesn't easily outweigh your offered utility when front-lining. I'd also make healing outside of procs or other in-melee gimmicks very inconvenient to help solidify the front-line presence.

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To change a job's definition because people want it to melee better just makes no sense when you already have a wide range of melee jobs, if you really want to melee more just pick a DD job since it's the same thing.

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Less about changing a job's definition and more about correcting something that should have never happened to Red Mage in the first place. Also, tell that to all the DRKs. I already answered in the DRK manifesto thread why some of us are so bent on seeing our classes fixed rather than just throw in the towel and play something else.

If Camate is reading this, I also second Seriha's request to have more than just PUP and DRK get some sort of reaction or response. The RDM forums have been having melee discussions since the forums opened and the manifesto the developers released was far off the mark given all the discussions. At one point I even suspected we were a faction exclusive to the NA region, only to discover the JP players also have a RDM melee camp (or as they call it, naguri aka madoushi). We were conveniently ignored before the forums opened, none of the web pages or sites mentions us during interviews. It's easy to feel ignored under those conditions.

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Personally, puppet AI doesn't look like it would be easy to fix. I personally feel the healer automaton should just be more open to direct orders from the PUP. You can get away with the recasts and so on while nuking and just AI while having it hit things or use ranged attacks, but healing unfortunately requires being a little more direct. It's more the spell list than anything else, otherwise it would probably play similar to a healer wyvern.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

And please refrain from bringing up utility, because utility never justifies lacking damage and/or performance in the front lines.

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Please, you can't think of SOME utility that could make up crap damage on the front line?

It's been tried and failed. Want me to go into specifics (though I wouldn't want to derail the thread)?

***, I would PM you but...

I'll try to make this quick then.

Imagine if there was a buff that reduced your melee to one damage per swing, but in return your melee strikes inflicted a debuff that gave the monster +1,000,000% Damage Taken. Would you invite someone for that debuff?

"But such a thing is broke...""
No *** sherlock, but if you reverse the situation to where the debuff now only gives +.0000001% Damage taken would you still invite the job?

Somewhere in the middle there lies a happy medium where the concept is balanced (the point where economically the +DT outweighs the damage reduction from the debuff, the risk of the job being at the front, and it being the best option to increase the parties damage at that point). A concept by itself cannot be broken. Only when it's implemented poorly is it overpowered or underpowered.

If such a concept has been tried and failed then the concept simply hasn't been implemented properly in the past (and if you want I could argue that such a concept actually has been successful in the past)

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Originally Posted by Supersun

***, I would PM you but...

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You read my mind, buddy. I started thinking about the Enable PM Already thread.

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Somewhere in the middle there lies a happy medium where the concept is balanced (the point where economically the +DT outweighs the damage reduction from the debuff, the risk of the job being at the front, and it being the best option to increase the parties damage at that point). A concept by itself cannot be broken. Only when it's implemented poorly is it overpowered or underpowered.

If such a concept has been tried and failed then the concept simply hasn't been implemented properly in the past (and if you want I could argue that such a concept actually has been successful in the past)

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I am genuinely interested to see how it worked in other settings, because personal experience has shown me how it miserably fails.

I'll white out and hide the rest so that anyone who cares can highlight and read, while the rest of the thread can continue with the PUP discussion.

The reason I say it fails is based entirely on my experiences as a Retribution Paladin during WoW's Burning Crusade expansion. Ret was designed and limited around the idea that you deal less damage than Warriors and Rogues because the utility and buffs (heals, out-of-combat Resurrection, stuff like Blessing of Protection, Divine Intervention and so on) were supposed to justify them being in melee range instead of the then-"traditional" and "expected" role of paladins, which was heal groups/raids and spam buffs.

Let me explain the design so that I may continue. When you specced Ret, you basically used a two-handed weapon and dealt less damage than a Warrior or Rogue, in exchange for an aura that increased the damage dealt by everyone in the raid. You used an ability called Judgment of the Crusader to give a mob a debuff to increase all damage taken. You had buffs to increase offensive power and mana regeneration abilities of the your group. Your utility also included Crusader Strike, which renewed the duration of all Judgment effects on a mob (which was there to encourage having multiple paladins in a group to put up different Judgments, and thus, various debuffs that could be renewed by a Ret Paladin to last indefinitely). Of course, Paladins also have healing spells baseline, so you had Holy Light and Flash of Light for use on others, not to mention the ability to cleanse most status ailments from group members (the only thing pallys couldn't remove was curses).

You look at this and may think "that's pretty nice design without allowing that ret to step on the toes of the 'real' heroes--I mean, 'real' DPS". The reason it failed was because, like it or not, if you're hitting things, you need to perform as well as the front liners you're not inviting, or at least so close that only a real number cruncher would be able to see the difference. This is what allowed people to quickly figure out that for all their utility, ret paladins were still lol-worthy because the damage was still lacking and there were plenty of ways to circumvent having one in a group or raid (the most common one being "invite a rogue or warrior to fill that slot"), and the lolRet stigma remained alive and well. We tried to argue that our utility justified our being there, and I had a flashback to the old RDM arguments of 2003 when the response was "good groups don't run into this, so lawlshutupandhealme".

Sole Concession: The stigma suffered a tiny dent when the very last raid instance in the expansion (Sunwell Plateau) came out. And that was because all the major guilds in the world could not get past the gear-check, coordination-check, skill-check, brick-wall-of-a-boss known as Brutallus with the same mindset that allowed them to get through Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, Serpentshrine Cavern, Tempest Keep, CoT: Mount Hyjal and Black Temple. Because Brutallus was so finely-tuned that you needed the extra damage taken from Judgement of the Crusader and the damage bonuses from Sanctity Aura to actually beat him. It didn't help enough, though, as it went from "lolRet" to "go heal me in my raids for most of the raiding content in the game and maybe I'll let one and only one of you melee for that boss in Sunwell".

A lot of this is eerily similar to how RDM plays. Utility out of the box, baseline access to heals, a limited selection of buffs and debuffs that are supposed to go in hand with the class' design. The only things paladins were missing at that point in time was sleep (which changed when Repentance was changed from a short-duration stun that only worked on undead to an incapacitate that affected most mobs in the game) and some sort of nuke (which also changed when Exorcism was changed from a nuke that only affected undead to a nuke that affected all targets but had bonus damage and crit chance on undead).

Unsurprisingly, Rets faced the exact same resistance to their style of play that the melee RDMs are so familiar with. Even the lead developer at the time pissed off a whole lot of paladins when he said "ret is a spec for leveling, holy (the healing spec) is your spec for groups/raiding". The only real difference as of now is that one had their problems fixed (granted, Ret wasn't really fixed until Wrath of the Lich King hit) and the other has had their problems ignored and been trolled by the developers over it on several occasions.

To those who want to bash this for mentioning WoW, I'll reiterate: Red Mage's problems are not exclusive to FFXI; Paladin is effectively Red Mage's soulmate based on both having the same problems and dealing with the same problems on a mechanics level and the myriad of "people problems" that come with it. Now, Supersun, let me hear your tale.

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Originally Posted by Madine

Repeat after me: Next time, I will look for an answer myself before asking.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Building_Flourish has exactly what you're looking for.

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Err... yeah. So, that's uncited and unquantified information that is probably incorrect. It would be a gigantic pain in the arse to test and find the distribution that the main page claims, and a lot of Dancer information added to the wiki when the job was implemented was straight up wrong. I've corrected a lot of it, but this is one piece that's entrenched in the lore.

The Origin, as far as I can tell:
It was added on January 12th, 2008 without a citation by a guy who made 122 edits total. Many of those are adding in the MP cost of white and black magic with Light/Dark Arts up and changing drop rates to 100%. So there's no way to know where the information came from, because very few things added to ffxiclopedia get testing cited, and it seems unlikely that it's legit. There was an update in November that added Dancer, and another in March, so the information added on January 12th probably wasn't from either of those updates (and neither of their descriptions mention it). I don't have any idea where the information came from, and it looks suspiciously precise. I'd love to find out it's correct and get some numbers attached to it.

Guys seriously, go make your own threads and stop trashing this one. Which part of "we read everything, chill out" did you think meant "spam offtopic crap anywhere I post"?

Camate, I think part of the problem here is that the development team has said in interviews in the past "Use light maneuver with the damage gauge to prioritize cures", when the problem is in fact that light manuvers prioritize both HP cures and status effect cures, with the latter taking priority if the player has a status effect.

Is this just a miscommunication between us and the dev team? We don't want to force automatons to just cure cure cure, we want to be able to prioritize HP curing and status curing seperately.

TL;DR: We know how to make our automatons cure. The problem is that it is impossible to make them do it when we are afflicted with any curable status effect because status cures ALWAYS have a higher priority (Even with the damage gauge).

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Originally Posted by Mercilessturtle

Guys seriously, go make your own threads and stop trashing this one. Which part of "we read everything, chill out" did you think meant "spam offtopic crap anywhere I post"?

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Do me a favor and just skim all the job forums for threads with the little crown icon. Just looking at 4 of the 20 jobs myself, there's a good 20 pages of topics or so where, while reading may have been done, we don't know much else. This isn't to say every thread is worth responding to, but if you have one that breaks 1000 replies? Some kind of nod is in order.

I don't think it's fair to pin it all on Camate, but the translation game inevitably creates a bottleneck where I can only assume it has to go through him before it gets to us... or the devs. This is also where I say some more routine Q&A can come in handy, even if it's just a weekly thing where one time they're asking about Campaign, the next Chocobo Raising, and after that Corsair. Not everyone will be equally interested, no, but simple silent reading is not much different than the old days where we could only hope our concerns were being heard.

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***, I would PM you but...

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Yea, it is funny that it doesn't exist. You become all "Do I really need to make a "Attention Insert Name here" thread"?

You're not a PUP. You don't even have it high enough for all the frames. So far everything you have said is idiotic.

Grow up or troll elsewhere. The majority of your posts have all just been for attention. You got your attention. Now get it somewhere else.

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Originally Posted by Malamasala

Yea, it is funny that it doesn't exist. You become all "Do I really need to make a "Attention Insert Name here" thread"?

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Don't be silly. They expect me to buy an extra content ID to roll a character on Asura so that we can talk! =P

Someone's trying too hard.

Another AI bug I wanted to point out is, whenever the targeted mob is about to die, and my automaton starts casting a spell on me or on my party members, it stop casting right away when the mob is dead. What kind of stupid AI does that!? It should finish what it started, no matter what happens to the mob, a spell casting ON me should never be linked with the health of the mob the automaton engages!! :mad::mad::mad:But the funny part is (and I do appreciate it) even the automaton started casting, and I press retrieve, it still finishes casting whatever spell it started unless the target is out of range. I'll put this in white unless the dev read it and decided to fix it later XD
There are just too much need to be fix on pup, they shouldn't even think about adding more attachments before they starts ironing out the bugs.
...waiting on Dev response...:confused:

I don't know if this has been said but I'd like for my Automaton to use a certain tier of cure depending on my HP. I don't need a Cure VI and only missing 100 HP. =\

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Originally Posted by Miera

I don't know if this has been said but I'd like for my Automaton to use a certain tier of cure depending on my HP. I don't need a Cure VI and only missing 100 HP. =\

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I agree, but it might be a balancing decision so that its MP only lasts so long. It would be a little out of place though, considering that the BLM head will use a lesser nuke when a mob is at low HP and it thinks that it will do the job.

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Originally Posted by Mizuharu

So far everything you have said is idiotic.

Grow up or troll elsewhere. The majority of your posts have all just been for attention. You got your attention. Now get it somewhere else.

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Honestly, posts like this make me a sad panda. It really isn't necessary to stoop to personal insults, even if someone is being idiotic. Just ignore them. Calling them names just creates drama.

Sorry for the delay, but here is some information from the development team in regards to your feedback! :)

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Extend the maneuver duration.

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The maneuver duration, recast time, and overload are all balanced very subtly; through maneuvers, the automaton’s operability, as well as the frame and attachments, are largely affected. Due to this, we plan to create balance by adding and adjusting attachments and abilities without changing the operations of the base maneuvers.

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Make it possible to select the timing of ability, magic, and WS execution.

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In regards to abilities, we are making adjustments based on the original execution timing, however, for weapon skills we are looking into making it possible to select the execution timing manually. For magic, we believe the top priority is the revamping of recast times, so once we finalize those adjustments we plan on looking into being able to select the timing for that, as well.

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Extend the range of Deploy.

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We understand that there are times this is inconvenient for ranged/mage frames. We will look into increasing the distance for using Deploy.

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Make it so my automaton does not keep casting silence on monsters that are not affected by silence.

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With the current system, Scanner will detect resist rates, so by using a Scanner it should make it so your automaton does not cast this.
However, if there is even a small chance that the monster uses magic, the automaton will start to cast silence. The chance of there being a bug related to this isn’t impossible, so we will be checking on this.

Also, if you have any feedback such as “I don’t want silence to be cast on enemies that are highly resistant to silence” (ex: Make it so it doesn’t cast silence when the resist rate is over 60%) please make sure to let us know.

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Make curing a priority over curing status ailments when HP is low.

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We are looking into changing the automaton behavior. Since this is something that we have received a lot of feedback about we will be looking into it, but since the workings of the automaton logic are so complex it will take some time.

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Make a separate recast timer for each type of magic.

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We understand how you feel and are looking into separating the recast timers.

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Would like to save attachment sets.

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While we would like to do something for this, we would first need to perform a lot of work to revamp the user interface, so this will be difficult to accomplish right away. Sorry :(

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Get rid of the consumption aspect for attachments that consume maneuvers.

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We plan on revamping attachment stats, so there is a possibility that we make it so that there is no consumption of maneuvers. This doesn’t mean that we will be adjusting every attachment for this, but we will be looking at each one separately. If you have any feedback please let us know!

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Revamp the negative aspects of the tactical processor, drum magazine, and other attachments.

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We will be performing adjustments on attachments that need adjusting as necessary.

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Add Subtle Blow to automatons.

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Planning to implement this in the form of an attachment.

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Add a method to gain volatile hate with the Valoredge frame.

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We are thinking about making adjustments in the form of attachments, not on the automaton or puppetmaster side. For example, how does implementing Strobe II sound?

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Increase the physical damage resistance of the Valoredge frame.

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Currently, we are thinking more in the direction of implementing superior lubricant, such as Lubricant +3, instead of directly increasing the physical resistance.

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The sharpshot frame’s ranged attacks don’t crit…

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It doesn’t crit because it is recognized as a special ability. We are looking into it.

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Reduce the attack delay for the sharpshot frame.

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First we will be revamping attachments that need adjustments. After that we will take a look at the balance and look into this.

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Fix the issue where the sharpshot frame’s ranged attack damage is severely lowered depending on distance.

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We definitely understand. Since automatons are different than player characters, and it is difficult to adjust the positioning of the automaton, we are looking into easing up or even eliminating the distance factor.

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Add a MP recovery type WS to the stormwaker frame.

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We would like to look into new automaton WS ideas, however, since you can recover MP through Deactivate/Activate and by using the Mana Converter, we think it would be better to look at different effects.

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Can you make Magic Mortar a bit easier to use?

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The damage is calculated as a special WS, however, we will be looking into making this easier to use while making use of its special properties since we hear a lot of people saying it keeps doing zero damage…

Thats a lot of information. I'm sad that Maneuvers will continue to severely hinder the Damage of the Master, But if you can revamp attachments to make it worthwhile like you say, i don't see it being a problem!

Also, "Negative aspects of Tactical processor". Um, Camate, what does a Tactical Processor do D:? Can you please ask them that?

We'd all like to know :(. We know its negatives (Overload Rate) but not its positives.. :X

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With the current system, Scanner will detect resist rates, so by using a Scanner it should make it so your automaton does not cast this.
However, if there is even a small chance that the monster uses magic, the automaton will start to cast silence. The chance of there being a bug related to this isn’t impossible, so we will be checking on this.

Also, if you have any feedback such as “I don’t want silence to be cast on enemies that are highly resistant to silence” (ex: Make it so it doesn’t cast silence when the resist rate is over 60%) please make sure to let us know.

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I think you misunderstood what is being requested. The automaton will attempt to silence ANYTHING with mp, such as a crab, which never casts any spells. I haven't played PUP in a long time, but it was always very annoying to watch it continually silence crabs for no reason. This does need to be fixed. Perhaps allowing the automaton to cast silence only after it sees the mob cast would be ideal.