Quote Originally Posted by Tannlore View Post
Well the Dallas attacks aside, I'm actually very interested in the topic of this thread. I don't have pup 90 yet. I'm leveling it still as a side project (only 55), though I have drg and smn 90 (leveled them to 75 pre CoP days) Bst is 22... one day.

Anyhow, My focus is smn and I have quite a few things I'd love to see based on my experiences of playing pet jobs on a multitude of other mmos as well:

1. Some form of taunt that is NOT our blood pact: rage. Yeah sometimes our timers are down, it would be nice to have that option up. Sometimes I find myself wanting to save a friend, or myself and that rage timer just isn't cooperating ya know? Don't think it would be that over powering as our pets are hardly walking metallic fortresses of indestructibility (Well outside of abyssea for the most part). And you do know.. you aren't always playing in abyssea.

2. Ability to Heal our avatars: Not just Hit points, but status ailments. Even if it meant taking it onto ourselves similar to the white mage spell sacrifice? Sometimes it's not practical to release and resummon. Wouldn't that make Myrkr even more useful? It seems kind of silly that we can't maintain our own pets in this manner.. heck any manner really. Bst have it down, they can feed their pets food: I was happy when I got reward. As dragoon, I was damn skippy happy when I got Spirit Link cause I Was tired of AoE killing my wyvern all the time (Still happened.. but at least he lived a little longer).

3. Spells that buff our avatars: Give us spells that give our avatars buffs. Summoner native versions of protect/shell and the likes. Heck make it all the pets. Why not just make it so you can actually cast white magic buffs on them? Adventure fellows got this mechanic, I don't see why it can't be applied to pets. Dragoon Wyverns get this benefit when Empathy is used. Why can't Bst/drg/pup/smn pets have buffs cast on them like Fellows and players?

4. Toggle the the auto attack on avatars. >.< I've adjusted over the years.... but I can't tell you how many times I've seen some smn noob it up when you sleep mobs and their avatar goes happy go lucky wapping along on sleeping mobs or bound mobs because they aren't paying attention! On most any mmo out there this is a toggled setting. passive/aggressive/defensive, or automatic/manual, or alert/passive, or what have you. Here it's OMFG I'm going to eat you!!! mode 100% of the time >.>
2. Say Hello to Dawn Mulsum.