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

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I read what you put, I understood it, I just don't agree. Being more effective at older content and solo content is not a good justification to being absolutely useless in current content.

I never asked for the automaton to become the 'best' at anything, I never even asked for a buff in damage from either automaton or master. I think puppetmaster is in a good place in terms of damage, to be honest, barring a few accuracy concerns from the automaton. All I ask is that the automaton shouldn't have to die after 2 AoE in content that where heavy AoE is the norm.

This isn't even a new problem, it was a problem in voidwatch where the pets were given no mitigation too. If anyone is misrepresenting peoples arguments it is Stompa, who seems to think I want puppetmaster to be the worlds best healer, damage dealer and paladin. All I want is for the entire focus on my job, my pet, to be able to be something I can rely on.

I can't think of any decent content that pup excels at. I can farm dynamis and salvage on it, but I can equally do that on THF or DNC or MNK/DNC if I so wished. I can't solo older content with the same efficacy as BLU due to a combination of bad Automaton AI, MP management and AoE. I just wish people would stop pretending that puppetmaster sits in a good place because of it's ability to do outdated content.

When my Automaton is alive we can compete, when my automaton is dead 90% of the time we cannot. I don't think the proposed 'solutions' are solutions at all. If anything, they're worse.

I don't think the problem is that I'm trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. I think it's that I have a square peg on a board made of nothing but round holes. I'm bad at metaphors.