Quote Originally Posted by Stompa View Post
Well you keep talking about how using maneuvers is time-consuming and lowers your DPS, to which I say again that PUP is not a DPS MNK, it is a sophisticated pet job and maneuvers are the primary requisite of Pups, using the right maneuvers wisely can change a fail into a win. I wouldn't send my auto near the AA mobs unless it was valoredge and I was stacking earth maneuvers. If I was meleeing I would use the party WHM to cure me and a ranger frame positioned away from the NM.

From what you're saying is you want a sort of "monk with a damage-resistent PL" type of situation but that isn't what the Pup job was ever about. It is a pet job designed to modify the auto to adapt to different situations which I outlined earlier.

All that said, I will repeat the thing about we should be allowed to upgrade our magian fists to lvl 117 at least, with pet pdt say -25 on the finished piece. But in the meantime I don't have a problem doing new content on Pup, I know that this job was never intended to be perfect for every situation, it is a situational pet job not a dual-box MNK+WHM.
this has nothing to do with DPS or not, JA-delay affects every job and imho should be fixed/removed whatever. It effects most those jobs that have to use JAs alot: PUP (extremly) DNC, RUN. SCH to some degree with stratagems. Not only does it kill your DPS it prevents you from acting, I can count several times I missed on SCH a stun because I was in JA-Delay, or a cure because of JA delay.

While yes PUP is a Pet job, it is a DPS job in my eyes, with the versatility to adjust itself with different matons.