Another cry for help thread, but with a lot of junk to read!

[SP1CE]

omg man up and lvl war.

[Seoha]

omg man up and lvl war.

OH NOES! QQ!

On a more serious note, we really shouldn't be summoning -anything-. Shadows, pets, whatever, we shouldn't.
The focus on DRK is cast dark magic and slay enemies pretty much.

By having pets of some sort we'll be a ghetto DRG, and that's not how it works whatsoever.

[NeoLionheart]

On a more serious note, we really shouldn't be summoning -anything-. Shadows, pets, whatever, we shouldn't.
The focus on DRK is cast dark magic and slay enemies pretty much.

I can see why you're so against the pet idea, thought for a long while on that one myself. However, it was not my intention to transform drk into a ghetto drg. A lot of my ideas were based around the drk job concept "support your party through weakening the enemy while beating the crap out of it". You could change the bat into a evil weapon or something. At least it would fit with the job quest. I just thought a bat would be awesome. Now for the shadow summoning part, the effect is short and no where close to a wyvern pet. I got that idea from zeid and shadowlord because they can split themselves into annoying clones. It's most certainly related to the dark knight mythos within the FFXI world.

[Duelle]

On a more serious note, we really shouldn't be summoning -anything-. Shadows, pets, whatever, we shouldn't.
The focus on DRK is cast dark magic and slay enemies pretty much.

I'd like to think we could become the lesser versions of a certain DRK that could summon shadow versions of himself to fight. The OP's summoning ideas aren't that farfetched when one takes that into account. The bat thing does sound a little funky, but I like the idea of giving all those vials of blood some actual use.