Impossible to Gauge - Starting PUP NOW?

[mrkyleonline]

I've been reading and browsing everything I can about PUP. The job has interested me for a long time, but I never got into it until just before the server's crashed. Hopefully, I will get some more time with it once the servers come back up!

My question is: Should I stop before I get too far into PUP?

I hear all this talk about how hard it is to get some of the attachments... and I know it is expensive to get all the gear / frames to start but is this just going to be a huge challenge to gather all the stuff I need to be successful?

What should I do?!

[Macrom]

Pup is a super fun job, its all how you want to play it really. Attachments: Yes there are a few that are hard to get your hands on, granted they are not something that is absolutly needed from lvl 1 on, rather something to work on getting.

Frame and head choice is all up to you, at low lvls its easy to keep up skill on all frames being that you can hop on a job that you have at 75 or 90 and just go /pup and your automaton will skill up. Keep skills up and you can do quite a bit by yourself.

I cant speak for other servers but all the basic Attachments are easily obtainable by NPC or on AH (like i said cant speak for other servers) usually attachments are anywhere from 8k-10 with the few that are 100k and one that is from the ashu talif quest line that is currently 800k on my server...

My advise is just go out and have fun with it, when i started playing pup (ToAU release) it was LOLOLOL but i still enjoyed it, its all how you want to play the job.

[Genjo]

PUP is a super fun job until you realize that it's the worst job in the game.

[Smokey]

I don't agree that pup is the worst job in the game. You can argue that with any job compaired to another. But it honestly comes down to what you enjoy. Thats the purpose of the game. Go out and level it up and see what you think for yourself. I leveled pup because I was curious, just as you are. It has its high and low points. Depending on how you wanna play it and use it for. I will tell you that it is not a party/alliance friendly job. I never use my pup with LS events mostly because I have other jobs that are just more logical to use. I would never come pup to heal my party when I have whm leveled up. Thats just silly. But if you have friends that you play with that understand that your passion is playing the job and you enjoy it more than anything, then there should be no reason to not level it up. It can be very fun and complex. You really need to understand the working of it and how to properly gear yourself and your auto. What manuvers to use for what and so on. Best advice I could give you is to go out and just do it, If you find yourself not enjoying it then move on to something else^^ Goodluck!

[Macrom]

PUP is a super fun job until you realize that it's the worst job in the game.

I suppose you could think that if you dont know what you can actually accomplish with pup.

[Miyazakii]

Do you want to be a pup?
If Yes then no matter what people say and will tell you about the job it will always come down to you being the person leveling the job. If you want to level it then what's holding you back? Pup will be the easiest job to get AF+ upgrades for in Abyssea at least for +1. Yes Attachments will be difficult to obtain I won't lie to you. You just have to look at the brighter picture every job has difficult items or gear to obtain it's what makes you proud of your time investment. Lastly, just stay motivated plan out what you want to accomplish. Set goals and try to reach them and before you know it you will be lvl 90.

Good luck hopefully you stay motivated and enjoy the fun Pup can bring.

[Zaknafein]

Generally people who blather about lolpup or lol<insert petjob here> are not intelligent enough, or have no where near the patience required for the jobs they ridicule. The only jobs they think are cool are w/e DD jobs are the flavor of the year. What jobs they are told are cool because they are to unoriginal or weak minded to choose for themselves.

[Michae]

Pup is incredibly underrated and the lolpup ppl just annoy me. The funny thing is the ppl who lol(anyjob) in /sh on my server are generally those who have all jobs at 90 and all are gimped beyond belief cause they took them from 30-90 in abyssea and didnt bother to skill them. That being said you have to keep you pup skilled. There is nothing that looks worse for us then a lvl 90 pup whose automaton is using tier 1-2 nukes. Pup when done right can be a great job to run. There are limitations in gear and the attachments can be expensive and bothersome but at least u only need to get them once and the payoff is well worth it. And Miya has a HUGE point. I actually never went specifically for pup seals, I went for smn bst blu or whatever seal I needed for another job and since no one EVER wanted the pup seals they just let me have them. I got all my seals for the complete pup +1 gear set without ever going out specifically for a pup seal. Its fantastic. Now if I could ever get the boots to drop...

[xiozen]

I suppose you could think that if you dont know what you can actually accomplish with pup.

Excellent point! Its horrid how people comment on jobs when its more than apparent they have no clue as to what they are talking about. It's comments like Genjo's:

PUP is a super fun job until you realize that it's the worst job in the game.

that give folks the absolutely wrong impression about a job.

As an example of what I illustrate---i've never invested any time into Dragoon... it's actually level 5... the lowest of all my jobs... and based on my non-existent experience with that job... i'll hop over to the Dragoon forum and say how it's the worst job in the game. Just makes a whole heap of sense huh? @_@

[Siviard]

PUP rules, and every time I see someone say something along the lines of "omg they should drop PUP and replace it with Bacon Mage" it makes me want to shoot their face off with my 12-gauge shotgun. (of course I'm not going to do it, it's a crime)

PUP is very fun, but very technical job. It's not like WAR or MNK where you just engage, afk for 30 seconds, come back, engage next mob, omg I have 200TP, use WS, afk for another 30 seconds, etc. etc. etc herp-a-derp. You really need to have you full attention, have to have your wits about you, and know what you need to do when certain situations arise. You also need to keep all of your frames' skills up to par!

One more important thing is to always try to use the best available equipment/armor. A lot of the "lolPUP" comes from PUPs with horrible gear choices (like using full PUP AF armor when there is better gear for other slots) and when it comes time to party, they perform horribly.