Customizing the Automotons!

[Shinron-PUP]

Well this makes me happy that I'll be the first to reply to your post because it has a rather few good ideas that I'd imagine a lot of people would be quick to shut down because it arises ideas that probably won't happen.
1. I think adding new pets is a fantastic idea. BRD, MNK, and expecially Blue Mage would be fun because I'd just like to see where Square Enix would go with it. It would increase the work load on Square Enix, but why not? I want them to complete the missing pets for Lv. 60, 70, 80, and 90 that they never added for each increment of 10 levels.
* Blue Mage - I imagine they would have to add the spells and they wouldn't be learnable but already there. I would hope the pet would have a lot of the same aspects of the original job, but be slightly weaker in one way, but stronger in another... The pet may be able to mimick more complex spells that weren't accesible to Blue Mage, but is not anything overly strong in comparison. He could also wield a attached sword.
* Bard - This I like because it adds a support type pet while increases automaton versatility. I would imagine they would make all spells aoe and similar to Bard, the pet would be more preficient in back up rather than meleeing.
* Monk - I would imagine this pet would add to our melee/tankers through counter stance and strong H2H weapon skills. I would imagine his battle stance would be similar to that of Harliquin.
* Dragoon - As for dragoon. I think this would be fun, but it isn't one of the "Generic" or main jobs like Monk/RDM/BLM/WHM so I don't think they would add this, but the idea is still worth thinking about.

My hopes is that Square Enix eventually adds a lot of pets because I imagine puppetmaster as being a "Mime". It wields a watered down form of every job increasing the stregnth in certain aspects, but still not being able to mimick the more complex ones that makes the original jobs so unique.

Also your idea about "Standing Ovation" which allows pets to cast outside of battle is great. I personally think it should be renamed "Bravo" because it's the act of repeating something already performed before. The problem with Puppetmaster getting all this enhancing magic I see is that we also have to be in battle to use it which takes away from the aspect of prebuffing for a fight, so this would solve this problem single handedly instead of having to find a mob everytime we need pro/shell V or haste... Really they could just make automatons act like NPCs outside of battle.

[Furlow]

Quite glad like the overall idea. I will say though the Drg model was mostly just for sake of variety and unique looks. I love idea of having more variety so not so Uniform looks.