Automaton massacre: The need for some form of Automaton damage mitigation

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But the idea that Pup should somehow be more powerful is not something I would go with, it is already powerful in the right situations and if played in the according way.

I don't see the balance in having a job that can sometimes kite a little better when there's effectively 0 content based around that. Let's not pretend that all content is equal. When 90% of the new content is geared around mobs that spam AoE, and that require high levels of PDT and Damage Mitigation to survive, then jobs should have some way of dealing with that. Most do in the form of shadows, or having a whm around that can help you deal with it.

I took my automaton to skirmish in Out'Rak - I could stay alive thanks to our WHM. My automaton had to eat Back to back AoEs. It has 1.2~1.3k hp depending on your animator. When 1 of those does 700 and the timer on repair is 3 minutes I fail to see a way it could have survived, sparing spamming maneuvers and severely reducing my dps.

Call beast is also on a 5 minute timer, and pets usually have enough hp to last that long, if not there's reward, if not there's muslum. We have to respawn our pet with 330 hp. It dies near instantly if we can't repair it quick enough. In terms of pet survivability, BST has us beat and then some.

Pup has a place, but that place tends to be doing Ilvl < 110 and soloing old content. All I want is for some way to make it even remotely viable on content that has heavy AoE