pup, where did you go wrong.

[Gwodien]

drg is to war, as pup is to mnk. and pup gets the freedom of being able to choose a sub and still get maximum control of the pet. and we dont even Need to control the pet for it to do things most jobs would kill for.

bst without pet is useless, mage without MP is useless, nin without tools is useless, ranger without a ranged weapon is useless. pup or drg without pet? still fully able to DD on par with most other DDs. but drg was meant to be that way.

pet tanking is not about being too hard, its a non-option and without me doing most of the DD and tanking i'd have no hope of killing anything. targeted arguments are nice, but again, overall, this job lost its way from being about controlling the pet to just ignore it and balls to the wall DD, you yourself used the argument that all you really need is whm head, stormwaker body and damage guage to save yourself (pup being able to save and swap attachments thread) but thats a targeted argument as well and not what i was trying to point out.

the argument that a dc mob can hit hard and we NEED the high eva is a valid argument and not the point i was trying to make. nor was the inability for the pet to tank the entire point of the original post, altho i failed at delivering that point in the original post and i apologize for that.

pup is a pet class that isnt reliant on its pet to acheive the same things that other jobs who are reliant on something are. pup isnt a pet class, its a DD hybrid at worst. and a fully capable DD with a personal rdm/whm/rng at best. that is my problem, and this is Outside aby as well, where a lot of other jobs loose that ability to be broken and become reliant on parties and dedicated healers again.

pup is a pet class like drg is a pet class. instead of spells or ws to trigger the breaths of the wyvern we get maneuvers, and even then you dont need to use them for the pet to achieve its goal of healing or using WSs. and it shouldnt have been that way...

a real puppeteer gives its puppets the illusion of being alive by controlling it and making it act in ways to trick us into giving an inanimate object life!

/rantoff