Job Adjustments for the Next Version Update

[RAIST]

Greetings everyone (and happy Friday!),

I'd like to follow up a bit about the planned wyvern enhancements for dragoon.

To give a simpler idea of what we have planned, by equipping a high content level weapon, we are envisioning that the stats of your wyvern also increase along with you. It's somewhat close to what a player mentioned about making it so your wyverns damage value, delay, attack, and defense increase based on your own values.

Currently there are pieces of equipment that have pet enhancing stats and by equipping them they influence your pet's strength (for example, there are already polearms in existence that enhance wyverns); however, this is not what we will be doing this time with polearms. With that said, it'll help a lot if you think of this as the polearms that are to be introduced from here on out will allow you enhance your wyvern, and the enhancements will not only increase specific stats. (We will be making it possible to enhance your wyverns after we implement the RME revamps.)

Also, the reason we didn't choose grips was because there are varieties of strong pieces of equipment that can be selected based on the situation, and if we were to make these enhance wyverns, it would be difficult to choose other options.

With that said, we felt it would be best for dragoons to be able to enhance their wyverns with their weapons.

now I'm a bit puzzled. Why is this approach not being applied to SMN, PUP, BST as well? Especially that line about the grips....I know things like a spot of skill or MP and such in a grip slot may not be considered as powerful as what is commonly used on other jobs, but some might like to keep the grip they've been using (for whatever reason it may be, the same principle should not apply to JUST DRG gear selection).

If they aren't going to focus on the real root of the problem (inherent issues with the pets themselves) but are going to instead look into gear, and have decided to link it somehow to the power of the weapon equipped....why can't this same approach be applied equally across the board for all pet jobs? I'm pretty sure BST, SMN, PUP have some top end weapons they are using....so this should potentially be applicable to all pets in the same fashion. Granted, I know it can be a bit overwhelming if you are looking at RME and Avatarite level Magian weapons....but if it is possible with DRG, it should be possible with ALL pet jobs as well.

[Alpheus]

now I'm a bit puzzled. Why is this approach not being applied to SMN, PUP, BST as well?

If I had to guess, they wanna see if this pans out well and then roll it out for the rest of the pet jobs. If it doesn't pan out THEN they'll have to rework stuff from the ground up so they're probably trying the least intrusive method first on a job that doesn't necessarily need it per se.

[RAIST]

If I had to guess, they wanna see if this pans out well and then roll it out for the rest of the pet jobs. If it doesn't pan out THEN they'll have to rework stuff from the ground up so they're probably trying the least intrusive method first on a job that doesn't necessarily need it per se.

Think you may be giving SE too much credit. If that were the case, the proper thing to do would be to put it on the test server and let people test it for them and provide feedback before going live with it--be that on just DRG or all pet jobs. That is, after all, the primary function of a test server---to test significant changes before putting them into production.

As it stands now, it looks more like they have seperate plans for each pet job...none of which really make sense if you acknowledge that the problem is inherant to the pet's scaling since level 75 cap was exceeded (may be the problem here.. SE just not getting it). If they would just fix that aspect across the board, there may not need to be any additional gear added as an attempt to fix the job (that's not exactly a fix to the job...more a tweak to it's gear selection, but not a fix to the job).

Now, if they wanted to add grips and such as new items to help us tweak pets in certain ways like we already do with Magian's and such, that might be acceptable (provided the pets themselves are fixed)---but to make that basically a requirement to put them on par with where they should be naturally is just not acceptable when our main inventory is already clogged up with Pet: Enhancement gears as is.

[Alpheus]

Think you may be giving SE too much credit.

lol well put

Edit: Also the rest of your post I agree with so only quoting the start of it