A Suggestion From The Pet Job Community: Stop Ignoring Us and Listen To Our Plea.

[WoW]

NOOOOO. I hate this for bst. I hate hate hate it. I should be able to wear the best axe for the situation regardless of ilevel - since they don't actually put best stats on higher ilevel stuff. I mean just look at the difference between Hunahpu and the Eminent Axe





Why would I ever want to equip eminent over hunahpu? +30 accuracy I dearly need and +3 haste my pet needs SOOO BAD. But I get penalized heavily for choosing the axe that actually has important stats for my pet. I don't know what the solution is but ilevel has @#%^ed BST badly. I can't even use my PDT axes in offhand cause my pet automagically loses HP. It's nonsense.

Spot on Olor^^

Those -PDT axes really screw bst over imo. None of the higher tier axes have -PDT on them, blah.

[Olor]

It's like they thought allowing BST to have 10% PDT on their pet would somehow be gamebreaking - when in reality no one wants to invite us to anything ever and PDT would just make it so maybe we could participate in WKR without spending millions and/or spending half our time in there waiting for call beast timer.

Mostly I'm just mad cause I got Hunahpu last night and I have almost finished saving up for a JSE axe, and I realized I'll have to sacrifice pet stats if I want to offhand hunahpu over the hideous, non-bst specific eminent axe.

[WoW]

It's like they thought allowing BST to have 10% PDT on their pet would somehow be gamebreaking - when in reality no one wants to invite us to anything ever and PDT would just make it so maybe we could participate in WKR without spending millions and/or spending half our time in there waiting for call beast timer.

Mostly I'm just mad cause I got Hunahpu last night and I have almost finished saving up for a JSE axe, and I realized I'll have to sacrifice pet stats if I want to offhand hunahpu over the hideous, non-bst specific eminent axe.

There is alot of that going around; they may not give a damn honestly, lol. Select a few golden childs every few months to prevent a complete uprising then repeat the process. Just keep a few playable jobs is their motto I guess; maybe they have given up. "Shrugs"

[Demonjustin]

Ok, you make a good point, but at the same time it won't work either way then because full 119 gear isn't optimally useful either. Sometimes you want full 119, sometimes you want a mix, but it's stupid if pets are thrown down to level 117 because my average is 117. The level of our pet is determined at the time of being summoned anyways in the case of BST, so that argument holds less weight, however when it comes to SMN I'll admit it's much more accurate.

[Kensagaku]

Why would I ever want to equip eminent over hunahpu? +30 accuracy I dearly need and +3 haste my pet needs SOOO BAD. But I get penalized heavily for choosing the axe that actually has important stats for my pet. I don't know what the solution is but ilevel has @#%^ed BST badly. I can't even use my PDT axes in offhand cause my pet automagically loses HP. It's nonsense.

One quick note; I could be wrong, but last I checked it was only the main-hand weapon that affects your pet level; offhanding a PDT or at least switching it in to absorb a big hit should not affect your pet's HP or stats in the least.

In fact, according to the December update (boy, has it been that long?):

"The following attributes of pets summoned using the "Call Beast" command will now increase further based on the item level of the equipped main-hand weapon.
STR / DEX/ VIT / AGI / INT / MND / CHR / Accuracy / Attack / Ranged Attack / Defense"

So you can offhand whatever you want, meaning your PDT astolfo isn't completely useless when it comes to your pet taking hits.

[Olor]

Ok, you make a good point, but at the same time it won't work either way then because full 119 gear isn't optimally useful either. Sometimes you want full 119, sometimes you want a mix, but it's stupid if pets are thrown down to level 117 because my average is 117. The level of our pet is determined at the time of being summoned anyways in the case of BST, so that argument holds less weight, however when it comes to SMN I'll admit it's much more accurate.

No, pets level goes down if you swap weapons. I agree with you against averaging out it also sucks. Would be ok if pet level was determined by weapon when summoned and then could swap weapons - on bst can't. At least smn can change staves without gimping their smn now.

[Olor]

One quick note; I could be wrong, but last I checked it was only the main-hand weapon that affects your pet level; offhanding a PDT or at least switching it in to absorb a big hit should not affect your pet's HP or stats in the least.

In fact, according to the December update (boy, has it been that long?):

"The following attributes of pets summoned using the "Call Beast" command will now increase further based on the item level of the equipped main-hand weapon.
STR / DEX/ VIT / AGI / INT / MND / CHR / Accuracy / Attack / Ranged Attack / Defense"

So you can offhand whatever you want, meaning your PDT astolfo isn't completely useless when it comes to your pet taking hits.

I noticed hp of pet change when i swapped offhands last. Maybe it was something else (pet was fighting). Would be nice if thats the case. Thanks!

[Railer]

Did anyone mention having jugs and food stack to 99?

[Mitruya]

Great idea, Railer. Add to that Automaton oils also.

[Olor]

Did anyone mention having jugs and food stack to 99?

No thanks. Stacks are expensive enough. 99 of the pink bird would be 10 million+
And you'd also be stuck with a whole crapton of pets whenever they obsolete older ones through level caps