Dragoon pet command: Mini Climb
This is a suggestion for a new pet command for the drg job class.
Name: Mini Climb
Causes the Dragoon's wyvern to climb and maintain a higher altitude than normal. At this altitude the wyvern will be unable to perform physical attacks but can perform breath abilities normally. At this altitude wyvern will be out of range and therefor unnafected by enemy AoE attacks or -ga spells, however will be susceptible to ranged or magic attacks which directly target the wyvern itself.
Obtained: Dragoon Level ??
Recast Time: 1:00
Duration: 5:00
Disclaimer: this is not my idea, I just read it on the JP forums and fleshed it out. Even then it was AceCat quoting someone else. Here's the link: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/forum.php#threads/389
Basic summary and use:
This is a stance for the wyvern the would remove it from most damage threats during a combat situation in exchange for essentially removing it's ability to do damage or build TP. The purpose would be to keep a support/healing wyvern alive through longer fights with frequent AoE. This would allow for more reliable healing breath strategy. Imagine if the wyvern could spit down breaths safely from above while the drg or party takes all kinds of damage below! Even when using an offensive wyvern, the DRG's new jump abilities and even Empyrean Armor bonus are directly tied to the wyvern's presence. I threw in the bit about enemies being able to target it directly with ranged/magic attacks just so the wyvern isn't 100% invincible if they somehow took hate. It'd still be out of range of standard melee attacks, much like enemy wyrms in flight.
Another possibility in this stance would be for the wyvern to perform a diving attack with chance of critical in tandem with the Dragoon's jump attacks. Im undecided about whether the drg should be able to use spirit link or not in this stance. Surely there are a lot of small elements that could be tweaked but the main focus is to sacrifice most of the wyverns atk potential in exchange for much more survivability while still having access to all of its breath abilities.
SE please implement this!!