The chances of having another Pet class like Smn/Sch might be slime to non.

Oo please, we all know BEast Master will be in game at some point..their no way SE won't add it.

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

More convinced that not only will there not be any pet jobs until a better standard control UI can be implemented for it, but also the main reason why Summoner hasn't gotten pet glamours yet is really because the 4.0 job overhaul is going to remove pets from Summoners so they can put more focus on the player and making it a tiny bit closer to much earlier versions of the job.

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yeah i can see this happening, as an excuse that we can only get 2 new jobs, because making smn more smn like was too much

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Originally Posted by Lulu89

Oo please, we all know BEast Master will be in game at some point..their no way SE won't add it.

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I highly doubt they are going to put beast master in the game seeing their current track record with Smn/Sch, but all of this is just speculation. I hope I'm wrong. I would love to play a tank class with a pet or another Pet class dps.

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Originally Posted by ADVSS

yeah i can see this happening, as an excuse that we can only get 2 new jobs, because making smn more smn like was too much

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I doubt they'd use that as an excuse since last I heard, every job is supposed to get a makeover for 4.0

I hope Beastmaster doesn't get added. Another FF already had it there and was the best version of it. And since this game doesn't like borrowing anything from it's older sister other than assets, this version will probably be worse.

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Originally Posted by Laerune

I just want a pet-class where the player is controling the pet actions more and the pet is the center of the class and not the player.

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Same here, but the Devs pretty much said that it's not happening. To be honest I'm not surprise FF14 is a casual friendly game. I don't think the normal player base would be able to handle it.

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

When it comes to a new pet class, they could kinda cheat and still claim it if the pet itself was the weapon. As in they move with you and the attacks are nothing more than your characters waving/signaling/calling out commands that the pet instantly reacts too as if you performed the skill yourself. I mean, its an idea but don't know how many people would jump on that train or not, but this in turn would mean we ourselves would be doing nothing more than commanding and moving, not attacking alongside our pet.

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Like a Mammet Master class :3 that would be pretty wicked, and every "weapon" is a different Mammet, kinda like Lulu in FFX had a doll as her weapon.

Otherwise, I'm not sure WHY people are saying issues with SMN/SCH are why they won't make another pet class, the thing with those two is they're combined, and that's why they have issues. Making a completely new pet class would allow them to optimize the system.

Now I would LOVE Beastmaster, but Beastmaster has thee same issue as Blue Mage where it's hard to maintain the integrity of what the class is within the confines of how jobs are in FFXIV. Both classes are heavily dependent on going out and capturing/experiencing different monsters in the game. It is very not casual friendly and it would be worse because people would be hating on the class players for not having such and such skill/pet. The developers have talked about this being an issue with Blue Mage and why it is unlikely to be brought into the game, and Beastmaster gets the same boat.

That said, the Mammet Master idea wouldn't be bad, and there is Final Fantasy precedence... but if they do Beastmaster, the issues would have nothing to do with SMN/SCH but more to do with how to define the beast to be commanded and how to make it seem Final Fantasy still.

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

More convinced that not only will there not be any pet jobs until a better standard control UI can be implemented for it, but also the main reason why Summoner hasn\\'t gotten pet glamours yet is really because the 4.0 job overhaul is going to remove pets from Summoners so they can put more focus on the player and making it a tiny bit closer to much earlier versions of the job.

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Egi glamor just didn't make it in time for patch 3.4, and is now scheduled for patch 3.5. Likewise remake of exploratory missions was shifted to 3.5. While there will be a lot of job adjustments in 4.0, there's no indication of completely redeveloping SMN into a new job. Egi system is staying.

I miss the time where summons were big attacks with 30 sec cutscene and not pets.

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Originally Posted by Laerune

I just want a pet-class where the player is controling the pet actions more and the pet is the center of the class and not the player.

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I've posted a lot about a pet class and what I'd want beastmaster to be in quite a few threads. But I'm going to say that at this point I'm fairly convinced that SE has abandoned the pet system entirely outside of (possible) glamours. If we do end up getting another pet class that places more emphasis on the duo working as a team rather than the pet being what pets are in all other MMO's (a glorified DoT) nowadays? I will be genuinely surprised.