Cait Sith / Atomos

[Brightshadow]

Overall, I couldn't be happier with Cait Sith. Please keep in mind that getting new avatars doesn't necessarily mean becoming more powerful. The greatest thing that a new avatar gives us is more versatility, which is what our job is all about. Besides, why would anyone expect to get awesomely powerful blood pacts from Cait Sith? He/She (I forget) doesn't look anything like a powerhouse. In a fight between Cait and Carbie, id put money on Carbie.

Altana's Favor: Awesome support AF. This is perfect doing things like saving failed Yumcax runs. With enough elixirs and smn/glyphic horn augment, you could cast this 5 times before AF wears.
Raise 2/Reraise 2: These aren't affected by weakness. You'll be able to raise people every 38 seconds if you're weakened, which is also great for helping save runs. This also allows non /sch and /whm access to reraise.

Regal Scratch: stock level 1 phys BP, nothing special here
Mewing Lullaby: This is the first rage pact that inflicts sleep! Now, if you want to sleep a group of mobs and also debuff them (e.g. with Diamond Storm, or Lunar Roar) you can!
Eerie Eye: This has great potential, as it's possibly (i thought there was some item that inflicted amnesia; could be wrong) the first way for the player to inflict amnesia, which is huge! I just hope it doesn't have the accuracy of Pavor Nocturnus.
Level ? Holy: This is the second aoe damage non-AF blood pact that we'll get (the first and only previously being Thunderspark, which was given to us at a very low level). It's about time that we got an updated damaging aoe BP. Think of how much more powerful it will be than Thunderspark. Imagine using this against a large group of mobs along with astral conduit; it would be like giving a black mage access to chainspell and having him spam thundaja!

Small doesn't mean weak, she could still be the light version of fenrir; however, due to her bloodpacts I don't foresee her getting much action outside of Level ? holy, in the future SE should add the 3 remaining Bloodpacts to make her on par with the other avatars and please for the love of god make the missing bloodpacts damage dealing based. From what I see in her bloodpacts she looks like what phoenix would have been if we had a fight with her.

At the very least they should also add Banish II & Banish IV to make her more damage dealing like even tho its uncommon for avatars to have many normal spells as bloodpacts.

[Lithera]

Sleep that lowers the effected mobs tp. Hopefully her AF will make groups want summoners in more fights for a oh crap moments. Sure it will be just like the PD days, but right now most summoners don't get brought because they don't have anything the current player mentality wants.

Yes, the only two that are worrisome in how strong is the amnesia and the holy. I hope SE learned their lesson with diablos and not make these worthless for the most part. Will be waiting for the various tests on these.

[Lithera]

Cait to me has always come off as a light weight scrapper type fighter. So she might not hit hard outside of her BPs but she'll hit more often. Think of her like a house cat. They have insane speed but mostly nothing that is going to be a huge hurt factor.

[Lithera]

Huh, something that will be needing testing is her sleep as it didn't say if it was light or dark based. If she is light then even a better reason to have her out with so many things resistant to dark based sleep or highly resistant to it.

[Rakshaka]

Very good point! This is most likely a light based sleep, which makes it even better!

[Sasaraixx]

whining, whining, and even more whining... We didn't need another Garuda/Ifrit/Ramuh, Cait Sith gives us things we didn't have before, and instead of being thankful for more utility spells, we Summoner's again just whine, disgusting, sry for the rant, but really, what did you expect? An Avatar to overshadow all the others? yeah right...

Whining? How about valid concerns/critiques? I think you need to take a step back and calm down.

I don't see much utility. I have no faith that the amnesia pact is going to land on anything worthwhile. Does it seem likely groups will bring a SMN just for arisega? I don't think so.

Assuming the sleep pact is light based, that will be a nice addition but it really would only affect solo play.

If the potency of the holy spell is good then that will be her saving grace.

[Mefuki]

It's probably because I don't really follow the state of SMN that much but what exactly were we expecting? What did we want Cait Sith to do? What do we want any new avatars to do? I ask these questions sincerely. Aren't these Blood Pacts the same ones from the BCNM? So, it's not like we should be surprised at what we got. We knew that was what we we getting. I guess I'm just confused as to why everyone is so disappointed.

[Shalehonnleath]

The Website doesn't mention anything about Cait Sith's Favor Effect. Anyone heard anything?

[Imakun]

She doesn't have any BP above lv75, so I guess we'll see something more soon enough.
Still, after all these years they really should have given us the complete package :\

[Cabalabob]

Yeah I'm hoping the list isn't final, she hasn't got much, I'm still holding out for retracega/sneak invisiblega, maybe some decent damage pacts. But at least we now have something to replace thunderspark with as our AoE.

I'm not saying what she has isn't good, my eyes widened at that AF pact, though really it's SE's way of saying "there AoE raise + reraise, Phoenix isn't coming stop asking!".

It's more just that there is very little there, 2 damage pact, 2 debuffs, 2 wards excluding AF, just not much to work with. So I just hope she gets more, even if in later updates.