Some new frame ideas for automatons

[Dfoley]

Personally, theres a lot of neat ideas out there, but most are too complex and aren't really worth the time.

We have a ranger, blm, whm, war (pld?).

Which means all we really need is a pet with dual wield, (thf or mnk) or a pet with a 2 hander (war or sam). Something with A+ melee skill, and attack speed that scales with level (480 at 20, down to 300 at 90).

What we dont need is another ranger, or a bard, or a blue mage. With manuevers triggering spells it means we are pretty much craped out on the number of available spells any mage could cast.

[Orenwald]

Bladeslinger X-1337

Head: Melee+1 Magic-1
Capacity: Fire+3 Wind+1 Thunder+3 Light+1
Ice+0 Earth+1 Water+0 Dark+0
Special:Store TP+10
Deployment:
-Automaton will close into melee Range.
-For Sharpshot Will use it's Ranged Attack Immediately upon Deployment
-For Sharpshot Ranged delay of 45 seconds
-For Stormwaker and Harlequin: will only cast Enfeebling Magic

Frame: Melee:B+ Ranged:0 Magic:0
Attributes:
(Lv.90) HP:1080 MP:0 STR:97 DEX:82 VIT:83 AGI:84 INT:75 MND:80 CHR:82
Capacity: Fire+3 Wind+2 Thunder+3 Light+2
Ice+2 Earth+2 Water+2 Dark+2
Special: Gains 5 Store TP every 20 levels.
Automaton gains a 5% attack bonus when Deployed against the same monster his master is fighting. (Could leave a hidden status debuff like Samba)
Uses Unique weaponskills
Melee Delay:450
Responses to specific heads:
Bladeslinger: TP threshold of Inhibitor increases from 90% to 75%

Unique Weaponskills:
Lv1: Reaving Blade: Single Hit wind Damage (Elemental, low damage), Skillchain Property: Detonation (closes Detonation off most Low Level H2H WS)
Lv50: Spinning Blade: 3 hit physical attack, moderate damage. Skillchain Property: Scission (Closes Distortion off Howling Fist)
Lv71: Grand Laceration: 2 hit phsyical attack, above average damage (600~800) Skillchain property Distortion (Closes Darkness off Stringing Pummel, Closes Distortion off Dragon Kick)

[katz]

Bladeslinger X-1337

Head: Melee+1 Magic-1
Capacity: Fire+3 Wind+1 Thunder+3 Light+1
Ice+0 Earth+1 Water+0 Dark+0
Special:Store TP+10
Deployment:
-Automaton will close into melee Range.
-For Sharpshot Will use it's Ranged Attack Immediately upon Deployment
-For Sharpshot Ranged delay of 45 seconds
-For Stormwaker and Harlequin: will only cast Enfeebling Magic

Frame: Melee:B+ Ranged:0 Magic:0
Attributes:
(Lv.90) HP:1080 MP:0 STR:97 DEX:82 VIT:83 AGI:84 INT:75 MND:80 CHR:82
Capacity: Fire+3 Wind+2 Thunder+3 Light+2
Ice+2 Earth+2 Water+2 Dark+2
Special: Gains 5 Store TP every 20 levels.
Automaton gains a 5% attack bonus when Deployed against the same monster his master is fighting. (Could leave a hidden status debuff like Samba)
Uses Unique weaponskills
Melee Delay:450
Responses to specific heads:
Bladeslinger: TP threshold of Inhibitor increases from 90% to 75%

Unique Weaponskills:
Lv1: Reaving Blade: Single Hit wind Damage (Elemental, low damage), Skillchain Property: Detonation (closes Detonation off most Low Level H2H WS)
Lv50: Spinning Blade: 3 hit physical attack, moderate damage. Skillchain Property: Scission (Closes Distortion off Howling Fist)
Lv71: Grand Laceration: 2 hit phsyical attack, above average damage (600~800) Skillchain property Distortion (Closes Darkness off Stringing Pummel, Closes Distortion off Dragon Kick)

Would be neat to have new pet commands. Magic ones for which tier spell to use and Ranger ones to stay go close or stay back. They could also be used to say enfeeble, elemental,divine etc

[LeaderofAtlantis]

Long ago I thought about the fact that I would love to see quests that allow us to boost the elemental limits of each frame and head by 1 for each element. Maybe limiting the quest to 1 per Vana'diel week would be alright.

Also, in regards to frames, they need to make a way to gain a Repeating Crossbow outside of crafting. Make it in a BCNM or ISNM or something so it doesn't necessarily step on the toes of people who still want to craft it, but I've seen a few new PUPs trying to get that item for the Sharpshot frame but can't find a crafter for it.

[KorPoni]

Long ago I thought about the fact that I would love to see quests that allow us to boost the elemental limits of each frame and head by 1 for each element. Maybe limiting the quest to 1 per Vana'diel week would be alright.

Also, in regards to frames, they need to make a way to gain a Repeating Crossbow outside of crafting. Make it in a BCNM or ISNM or something so it doesn't necessarily step on the toes of people who still want to craft it, but I've seen a few new PUPs trying to get that item for the Sharpshot frame but can't find a crafter for it.

Oh how right you are! I would already have Sharpshot on Korponi if it weren't for the need for the repeating crossbow. I'm actually really contemplating levelling the 88 ww, 59 sm, and 46 bc needed for the crap. I have the ingredients for it, but a crafter is nearly impossible to find.

I haven't given it any thought as to weaponskills for Flyingblade model.
Here's some attempts at weaponskills:
Knife Juggle
Maneuver: Wind
Hits: 3
Damage type: Slashing
Effect: Low damage ratio per hit, kind of useless unless all three strikes hit, or any strike is critical.

Detangling Spin
Maneuver: Thunder
Hits: 2
Damage Type: Slashing
Effect: High chance of critical with each hit. Low damage ratio otherwise, as Knife Juggle.

Poisoned Darts
Maneuver: Water
Hits: 3
Damage Type: Piercing
Effect: Poison effect doing 1, 2, or 3 damage/tick, depending on how many hits succeed in one use of the weaponskill. If reused while the poison is in effect, the new poison effect cannot overwrite the old one.

[Cupofnoodles]

let the automaton have its own automaton! MWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA

[turtlebuddah]

what about a version two of the frames/heads and additional heads for the valoredge and sharpshot going up in level increments of 10 like stormwaker heads did

[KorPoni]

what about a version two of the frames/heads and additional heads for the valoredge and sharpshot going up in level increments of 10 like stormwaker heads did

I always thought that it'd be nice if they came up with a new head for all four bodies, at level 60, 70, 80, and 90, but had them interchangable which order to get them, as long as the ones up to 50 were done.

[Awezomeos]

The only reasonably body i can think of is a Valoredge frame II with two-handed like weapon Great axe.
Middle low delay, high damage, powerfull Weaponskill, good thunder and fire capacity.

Also some MNK style frame for Harlequin head would be sweets.

[Leatherman]

dont need any more frames IMO but better attachments and maybe a few more slots for attachments. OH, and make the current broken attachments work.