All dragoons sign up for quest to upgrade our wyvern

[Ophannus]

I wouldn't mind if the wyvern was slightly longer and less infantile looking. The little raspy roar it makes when it's called or when it dies should be more mature and it's little headbutt attack animations are more cute and adorable than fearsome. The only reason I could see SE colelctivelly dragging their feet at the notion of having to make a new wyvern NPC for Dragoons is making new battle animations, resizing them so they fit in places and don't clip through areas, making sure they path correctly and then making a slew of new /emotes to match them. They probably already feel like "It took us 2 months and a lot of money to pay programmers to code those wyvern emotes which nobody asked for, we don't intend to make new emotes so that players can not even see or utilize the emotes we made for the young wyvern by upgrading to the adult wyvern."

[Bulrogg]

With the addition of the baby(mini) Fafnir type mobs in Abyssea I was hoping that maybe DRG's would soon see an update(quested). Even when taking flight they wouldn't seem that much larger than some of the Avatar's a SMN sports.

[Mirage]

Wyrms usually take centuries to reach adulthood and our is barely a Wyrmling, it's a damned Hatchling.

Well, going by vanadiel-time, my character is a few hundred years old by now, so why not?

[Leonardus]

All solid points Ophannus. SE brought this situation upon themselves though. You can't tease the playerbase with drg NPCs calling adult wyverns while the AF story fades out with Erpalacion telling your wyvern to "grow strong."

I honestly feel DRG could of become BSTlike, with a strong pet that begins weak but later covers what the master falls short in (Like the lack of heavy armor they had going). I guess that happens now, but it's not very impressive. "Cute" like you said.

If they took their .dat and redesigned it the way raised chocobos were implemented, I could see players being happy with some mish-mash combination that looks at least slightly older (Chocobo armor also seems to be pieced on). Combine that with a choice of scale (There are 4). It would be perfect, in an old ffxi-sort of way.

[kholdahra]

such spirited discussion. honestly i had hoped by now that we could at least change the color of our pets.

sadly, i have never seen a game where a pet class that can never change their pets ever see a makeover on their pets......oh...actually WoW warlocks can upgrade all their base pets...just saying.

[Tanama]

I don't think anyone would be opposed to this.

Art made by Naerko

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I'm opposed to anything that retains calling a dragon a wyvern.

[Metaking]

hmmm you know at that size the tip of its tail should probably be smaller and show the formation of its later spikes, also being that big would probably walk instead of fly most places but being the about the size of a raptor in that picture that wouldn't be to bad. hmm would probably attack by biting instead of ramming hmmm could give it a job ability coded similar to kick attacks tho instead of a kick they get an elemental shot(based on color) similar to what full grown greatwyrms use while flying (probably would wanna make it different from there normal breaths, and maybe not even count it as a breath as se has issues with breath attacks) tho only single target....... and here i go babbling again >.>

[Tsukino_Kaji]

True, it is a baby and is growing, but we don't know the life span of dragons in this setting. It could still be a baby long after you're dead.

[Toadie-Odie]

small quest like when deciding the adventuring fellow appearance seems ok.. talk to this guy choose abcde option.....next one...next one......wyvern ends up either red, yellow, blue, black, green, small, med-small, med, med-large, large,
and last one is for a small bonus appearance, head horns, diff wing shape, spot pattern... etc.

I really like this idea! I would be willing to do a series of quests like this to get my cute little friend to look even more adorable hanging out with my taru. Granted it's all vanity stuff but something like this should be completely non-game breaking. I also think the quest line should be repeatable so if your wyvern doesn't come on the way you had hoped or if you no longer like it, you could change it.

Edit: To clarify, just because I like my pets to be cute doesn't mean everyone else should be stuck with a cute pet if they don't want one. The quest should include fearsome skin options as well.