[dev1243]: Question on Gifts.

[dasva]

While it still needs more pets are doing fairly well right now. Auto can do some fun stuff and be rather resilient with it's cannibal blade spamming, smn has some nice buffs and will get more soon and does awesome hate free spike dmg and possibility of skillchains (though they really should have given the lvl 70 bps a lvl 2 and lvl 3 property instead of 1 and 2), and bst is okish dmg and finally has ready moves worth using and got a nice chunk of hp.

The main problem is as stuff gets harder because of buffability pets often just can't hit. SEs solution is just to give pets innate buffs and awesome pet food but there is no way to do that and make it balanced. Either they will have to make it so pets with just food and maybe some gear will be able to have hit rates and haste values similar to buffed DDs, at which point outside of fights where you need certain buffs to survive why use pets or need a bit faster dmg, or leave them lower and simple unable to even hit targets. Well except for autos cannibal blading though there melee dps will suffer and avatars will still be able to magic bp well.

One thing they can do if they are so bent on not letting buffs apply to pets is at least add more gear that gives acc/macc/dt etc to all the pet jobs. Like yeah it's nice bst jugs can land debuffs but on higher tier stuff they can't without -meva because they get no pet macc gear. Pup needs a lot more pet acc and even more so racc gear since they've pretty much ignored the rng auto. Avatars need a lot more pet dt... especially ones that allow them to still maintain high amounts of smning skill/-perp rate to make avatars favor actually usable.

Could also boost the cor rolls a lot. Like double the potency of some of them and maybe add a haste one and defensive ones. And fix the acc/att ones to actually do ratt/racc too. Maybe make them able to be targeted by single target buffs

Expanding JPs and finally raising the limit to 30 would also help a lot particularly bst. Also at the very least make the gifts apply to both the master and pet. It's not game breaking to allow both to get another 7 acc after spending tons of jp. It is kinda dumb to given smn things evasion and def instead of the avatar when 99% of the time they it wont matter