Dev Request: Grant Pets 50% of the potency of the Master's active buffs

[Duelle]

Even at 75 the pet system was crappy, honestly. Other games (e.g. dont shoot me for saying so but... WoW) have had pets that were fully affected and targetable by buffs, debuffs, and healing. And rather than having dedicated stats for pets on gear, the pets would get a percentage of the stats on the master's equipment- this was to compensate for master's stats otherwise usually outweighing the pet's by a wide margin. Despite this stuff, most of the time you didn't have people complaining about how OP pets were.

Stuff like the damage analyses posted in other threads about PUP show that you could buff pets by about a lot without imbalancing the game.

Part of the reason it works in WoW is that pet stats are weighed similarly to how player stats weighed, unlike pets in here where their stats are weighed in the same scale mob stats are. That's really the snag and I doubt the devs would want to rebalance all jug pets and add a function to nerf stats on charmed mobs to work with a system where player pets can receive buffs.

Would be awesome if it happened, though.

[Camiie]

Also, don't WoW pets get buffs that affect other party/raid members and have a natural AOE damage resistance?

[Okipuit]

Nursery Nazuna feeling a bit sheepish? Faithful Falcorr, just not quite faithful enough? Even Courier Carrie isn't carrying its weight these days?
It's okay, we understand. While it won't be through receiving a percentage of their owner's buffs, rest assured plans are set to increase pet strength!

[Karbuncle]

I love you.

Please tell me SMN is on the list <3

[Emaleth]

And PUP too. D:

[Tanama]

and DRG's wyvern!

[ManaKing]

As much as we have an excess of BST from dynamis (myself included) I would really think that you would want to focus on making sure SMN knows that you still want it in the game. PUP and BST deserve love as well, but SMN is still a flagship job and most FF games are basically about the SMNs.

I hope you are conveying how poorly SMNs feel they are being treated right now. I personally don't have a SMN only because every time I look at the job it gets worse and worse. It seems like I would be 'wasting my time' trying to have fun playing something that I want to be fun, but that just is not because it's been nerfed so many times to make way for....DPS?

[Keyln]

And my axe!

Wait...wrong topic.

[Areayea]

<3 u Okiput thank you very much <3 <3 <3

[Limecat]

After being told we're getting a pet with piercing, I'm kinda rooting for a DRG grasshopper that has a damage rating in line with the crazy new weapons.