Question to Square Enix. Any new Automaton Frames in store?

[Shinron-PUP]

Personally, I'd like to keep this short and sweet to avoid any unnecessary hostility and "notorious" puppetmaster rage debates over what's best for the job because there's no answer; it's completely something that's influenced by personal opinion.

I would like to know if there're any new pets in mind for Puppetmaster, this being more of a thread for the Dev team to answer rather than the puppetmaster community, but I feel that a new pet is well deserved for the weary eyed players which spend so much time asking for a bone from square enix... What I feel we really need is a fresh start, and this is feasible through a new pet. Of course, this comes with more problems in which square enix needs to fix, but I'm noticing the longer Puppetmasters are subdued to the same repeticious style, that being our current pets, the more time we spend fixing the old things including AI workability and flexibility during a fight let it be with a NM or a normal mob. Now let me say this... I understand that many puppetmasters are more than likely tied over with the current pets they have, but I doubt you or any other would complain to any faction of advancement or improvement to the puppetmaster versitality in which makes us so unique so I hope that all of you can remain at least optimistic to the ideas I put out for pets.

A Monk type pet or another Pet "Head" piece in which prioritizes enhancing magic are two pets I would look foward to because a Monk pet would hopefully introduce the concept of using two hands to fight instead of one like all of our other pets and be able to hopefully hold his own like Valor Edge but still be able to dish out damage like Sharp Shot allowing for the master to worry less about his pet. As for the Pet "Head" piece, I would hope it would have high elemental capacity where you could possibly switch intoit quickly no matter what attachments are currently on the soul souther frame or red mage frame set up and quickly cast enhancing magic then switch out once you have what you need like protect, shell, and haste (This would also call for Square Enix to allow our pets to cast enhancing magic outside of battle like NPCs.) Possibly even be able to switch into it during battle...

Feel free to add pet ideas and hopefully a Dev will comment telling us whether or not a new pet will be coming out soon. They have been being seemingly benevolent lately answering our many questions about Puppetmaster fixes and patches so hopefully they'll comment here too.

[brayen]

While i do support the idea of new frames/heads to allow a better variety of elemental loads and potential to the job, i think it might be more then we can get at the moment. In the recent manifesto update by SE there was no mention of it so i would assume for the coming year there is no plans for this, regardless of how fun it is to think up of new frame/heads for puppet. For example i would love to see 2 different valoredge frames, current one for more defensive play and another for more offensive play like rep the shield and clippers for two blades or something(not gonna get into it)

[Lushipur]

What we really need is more elemental affinity. By Fixing existing frames or adding new.

Some new frame archetype would be cool too. But we have lots of attachment unused cause there isnt space.

[xbobx]

There isnt. they basically said that when they mentioned they were adding new attachments to differentiate the puppets more.

[Kristal]

It would be cool if Harlequin could be repurposed as a MNK frame at higher levels. That way, no new models have to be added for each new head/frame combination, except for perhaps some new animations for the H2H fighting style. (Attacking with both arms, rather then twice with one arm.)

[bliz1643]

hello, felllow puppetmasters i think the ideas of a new frame is wonderfull, if not a compleetly new frame letting us do somthing with the Harlequin frame making it into a (quested & upgraded) relic style frame for 2 handed dd frame would be awesome! then the tanking frame could be updated to a more specific tank! i love the fact that se wants to give us more attachemnts to our automation but we are still limited to 12 slots, would be cool if they were 12 body slots 6 head slots or somthing.

on a side note i never do see any replys from "delv" to the pups please show us some answers

[Kristal]

on a side note i never do see any replys from "delv" to the pups please show us some answers

You mean like this or like this?

[Dfoley]

In all fairness most the replys we get are on the JP forum, and almost all the questions/requests they answered were JP questions. Very rarely do devs post in the ENG job forums, and our questions are even more rarely read in these forums when compared to the JP counter parts.

I am still waiting on the translation on parry, shield block, and activation rate of barrier module that was posted on the jp forum like a month ago.

[Covenant]

I fully support the idea of either a single, or series of new Frames head/bodies that drop in ALL endgame fields to include Dynamis relicautomaton(super paladin) and animators, mythic automaton(super WHM) and animator, einghar automaton(super BLM) and animator, and empreyean automaton(super RDM) and animator.

Each automaton and animator work as a set. As a set they'll provide extreme lowered overload(nil). Increased potency to particular style of attachments and spells. Each head/body will increase the elemental attachments slots and slot overall. Each head/body will feature increased stats over the standard body/heads. Each new set will feature improved functionality(ex faster attack, double/triple attack, damage down, faster casting, faster casting cycles, etc). Finally each set would offer each a unique weaponskill to automaton appropriate to job type.

As an additional head/body request, id like to suggest a salvage automaton, that is a Bard Type with full party support. This tricky since bard automaton could have 2songs and a pup/bard could add an additional 3rd song. But since corsair is getting 3 rolls why the he'll not?

As an aside all the new frames/head would feature new graphic updates.

[Camwin]

Do you know what PUP needs less than anything? A party buff frame. We are DD's in and out. We are not some support job. As an addition if we did get a frame like this, we would never be able to use any other frame in party situations at all. As cool as the idea may be, there is no logic nor reason for it.