Quote Originally Posted by Malamasala View Post
Well, it is a really funny story.

FF5 made me like the MNK+SMN job combo. Later FFs made me lean towards the SMN job more. It peaked at FF10, where I could control my own pet. So that was what I was hoping for in FF11.

First step was testing the job system. Original idea, re-do the MNK+SMN job combo. Quickly I learned SMN/MNK wouldn't be particularly good. So I was thinking I'll just go for SMN. Much main healing and very little avatars later, PUP came around.

This really threw me for a loop, since PUP was just what I wanted, but with the most ugly pets I've ever seen. But since SE seemed to suggest a C ranker like PUP should melee, then it opened up the idea that then a B ranker like SMN can as well. And it was pretty fun to melee on SMN as well.

I'm still slightly pondering to leech up PUP, but it is so much skilling up involved on pets. But a dat swap on automatons and it would be a pretty good job. It is a shame I don't have a correct dat swap method to get animations right though.



I also prefer more to explore new paths than follow the latest cookie cutter build. Like in Diablo 2 I could attempt to build a Paladin with support focus, instead of the basic Hammerdin for plowing through all monsters. That was a real failure though, since all people on battle.net are "rush rush, ball runs!" so I never really had any to support, and if I did support them it meant I wasn't close to the item drops.

If SE had given me all the facts and jobs from the start though, I believe I would have been a PUP. The most uncertainty with this is that the puppets are so ugly. I picked mithra because it was cutest, picking PUP then is like undoing my first choice.
The PUP C rank was a serious F' up though, I think SE thought people would accept a PUP based solely on their automaton.

I'd level PUP if I we're you. I'm not saying GTFO SMN you crazy meleeing fool. Just from what little I know of you and what I know of PUP I think you'd love it. Ugly pets aside, although PUP armor looks nice on Mithras.

My friends keep suggesting it to me saying "it's SMN but a melee". Which I always found weird because I've said since day one that I find melee boring lol.

Avoiding the cookie cutter is what got me into SMN in the first place. I liked the idea of SMN from other FFs, it really seemed like the job for me. Then I found out it wasn't very popular with other players, and my stubbornn streak kicked inXD