Automaton damage

[Traxus]

Automaton damage is garbage outside of overdrive.

[Ilian]

For everyone:
The automaton's niche in dps comes from skillchaining. Certainly with VE with Attuner/Flame Holder/Speedloader/Tension Spring.
Adjust by removing Speedloader(s) or Inhibitor(s) when in groups spamming ws.

Of course, everyone should know to get a gear set to boost VIT/att or STR/att (for Chimera Ripper).

Wouldn't say it's lacking, but requires more adjusting than other jobs for competitive dps. Puppets would certainly be OP if we could pump out Avatar numbers and never have an ounce of concern because your puppet's -dt and regen trump dps from nearly every mob in the game.

Has to be some sort of balance with that, yes?

[Jblauh]

I think giving the pet more dmg is silly. My friend plays Pup and he is doing incredible things with the job. We have him tank lots of high tier NMs effortlessly. Even seems to be resisting spells like Death for this Ambuscade and the damn this has like 4K hp and hardly loses hate. Even when I'm on Blu which is geared pretty well. When he uses his Ranger build he is doing massive SC dmg. He solos Apex mobs like nothing finishing them off super quickly with just a few SC's. The job as is right now seems incredible... So it's not doing dmg like Bst. Well big deal it plays differently. I'm a SMN and my pet dies when you fart by the damn thing. Our pets are ridiculously squishy. Now that's something that needs some looking into, but as for Pups atm, I think they're just fine. It tanks like a monster, and dps builds are pretty damn impressive. When my SMN MBs off his Pups SCs we rip through Apex mobs or a lot of NMs like nothing. Only thing I feel needs done to it is just some more control over its SC timing cause once in a while it will ruins our SCs when it tanks.