Devs: Familiars - piercing attack type?

[Case6888]

So after doing limbus and checking wiki today, i notice we have NO piercing "attack" familiars to use.

SE apollyon - floor 1
Weak to slashing, immune to blunt.

Ok almost 90% r slashing pets, and bst axes r slashing, no issue

Floor 2
Weak to piercing, immune to slashing.

Here is my issue,
With bst main 2 weapons being slashing type (axe/scythe); i can not help at all and on this floor i have to use a pet with blunt dmg type, which slows things down and u r timed. And wow, dont let the mobs link with the shared hate or else a normal 2 min mob becomes a 10+min battle(2hr-ing does help kill faster but not my point)



So my point is, can we get one or two familiars with piercing dmg type? That way us bst can keep doing what bst do best. lol solo things

[hiko]

C+ dagger skill is enough for 75 content

[Caketime]

C+ dagger skill is enough for 75 content

OP is asking for piercing jugs, didn't ask about Dagger skill. Do you not agree that piercing jugs would be nice? If so, why?

[Case6888]

Lol yes so i might need dagger up some for pre lvl cap stuff BUT...
Im pretty sure somewhere there is a NM that those C+ dagger dont do much too or u cant help ur pet because of nasty TP moves. There r many scenarios where the BST sits back and the pet fights alone.
So all im asking is that for abyssea and beyond (not pre75 stuff) they add a jug pet w/ piercing dmg type.

After reading other forums, i think a scorpion would be awesome also. and w/ tail attacks, it could easily be piercing

[Zagen]

A piercing pet would be nice since we have Slashing and Blunt pets so it's the only damage type missing from beast pets. That said if I remember correctly they outright ignored the player base with the decision to not make a scorpion pet even though it had the most votes, so I doubt that's going to happen.

There r many scenarios where the BST sits back and the pet fights alone.

These are player created scenarios not SE created, I wouldn't hold my breath using that logic.

[Caketime]

If SE expects us to stand there and take AoE to the chin, our problems are far greater than lacking a pierce jug.

[SpankWustler]

It would be nice to have a pet that dealt piercing damage. It could be named Pokey Pete or Pointy Pauline.

If SE expects us to stand there and take AoE to the chin, our problems are far greater than lacking a pierce jug.

I think it's safe to say that the Development Bros expect everyone in the universe to take AoEs on the chin.

There are monsters with 30' AoE attacks so that mages and Rangers get hit with horrible AoE attacks, there is a monster with AoE melee attacks who use Mighty Strikes so that not even Stun can prevent the horrible AoE attacks from raining down, there are monsters who use smaller AoEs back-to-back rather than one big one so that not even Earthen Armor or Sentinel's Scherzo prevent the damage of those AoEs, etc.

There's a real chance that whoever has been developing monsters recently loves Area of Effect attacks so much that he randomly leg sweeps wide swaths of fellow commuters while taking the train to work.

[Caketime]

+1 for Pokey Pete.

[Case6888]

Lol name im not concerned about, but ill def +1 pokey pete

Want a 99 familair w piercing dmg, decent stats, and at least 1 decent tp move. Lol not to much to ask for

[Mirage]

I agree that there should be jug pets available to cover all physical damage types.

However, as long as it is mostly to deal with lv75 content, I also don't think it would be too much of a problem to deal the piercing damage yourself, instead of with the pet, but whatever.

Keep in mind that these limbus issues you're talking about are not bst-specific. What do you think MNKs think about blunt-immune floors? How do you think DRGs enjoy piercing-immune floors?

As a BST, you have access to slashing and blunt easily, and only have to sacrifice kill speed when it comes to piercing. You're really not any worse off than most other jobs.