more PET jobs please!

OK square I would really like to see more pet classes in the game here are a few that I would like to see.

DPS
Puppet Master-would be a good close combat Dps.
Beast Master-would love to see a beast master in the game maybe with a whip as a weapon.
Necromancernecro/Void Mage-I know that a lot of request on old forums have mentioned necromancer for a pet job including myself would love to see it but lore wise it may be a bit difficult to implement what about Void Mages casters that use dark based spells less, Rituals and able to call upon lesser voidsents..Could have a requirement of having a BLM at maxx lvl to unlock.

TANK
Chobo Knight- I know this may sound odd but a chocobo Knight will be cool. Using the chocobo as support. Would love to bring my chocobo with me in dungeons

i with you on more pet jobs with exception of necoromancer

Black Mages have the ability to bind voidsent in the history of Eorzea. It'd be nice if we could do it

I want to agree with the topic but I honestly can't bring myself to and I'll tell you why, MMO design nowadays has turned pets in to little more than a glorified DoT while the player does the majority of the work. It's why I don't like Smn, the pet is basically nothing more than a bit of extra damage rather than being about you know actually SUMMONING things. Imagine if Smn actually summoned a large version of the avatar then mounted it and your hotbar was replaced by various attacks that you'd make the pet do. Essentially making you feel like you're a summoner commanding this powerful creature from it's back.

If we get a pet class, I'd want the focus to actually be on the pet and commanding it. Not on it being something that just supplements the job's damage.

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Originally Posted by Khalithar

I want to agree with the topic but I honestly can't bring myself to and I'll tell you why, MMO design nowadays has turned pets in to little more than a glorified DoT while the player does the majority of the work. It's why I don't like Smn, the pet is basically nothing more than a bit of extra damage rather than being about you know actually SUMMONING things. Imagine if Smn actually summoned a large version of the avatar then mounted it and your hotbar was replaced by various attacks that you'd make the pet do. Essentially making you feel like you're a summoner commanding this powerful creature from it's back.

If we get a pet class, I'd want the focus to actually be on the pet and commanding it. Not on it being something that just supplements the job's damage.

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All sayed. SMN should be THE PET JOB but SE messed it up to a Mage with a sidekick more and more. For a real pet job they should take SMN and swap the pet and the player. Pet means all (skills, abilities) and the summoning job should just summon the pet and then get treated like the summons of the SMN yet, while the player starts to play as the pet and the summoning avatar just as a sidekick.

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The way I envision it for a new pet class, would be that the active abilities you have on the gcd would be attacks that your pet does. Imagine if the new class is I dunno, beastmaster and they have a coeurl pet and they have a combo system like other melee do. First hit the pet does an attack, second combo hit the beastmaster attacks, and then the third hit the coeurl does a powerful finisher that does a DoT effect. You get the idea.

ffxi and ffxiv aren't each other titan wasn't meant be tank pet to begin with. I see pets in this take bst for example i think be cool to have pet attack. it catch enemy off guard so enemy turn focus on pet then bst attack with his or her whip. then enemy is confused turn it attention to bst then pet finish it attack off deal killed blown.

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They aren't, but I'm going to go ahead and say it, an improved version of the FFXI summoner is what I think this game should have gotten. In HW it's pretty clear they're basically abandoning pets for summoner and it's a shame as it's a system that I believe had a lot more potential.

Things to consider when making a FFXI like pet job. First if pet dies, dps is gone. Second you would need a channeling type function to account for a 2.5 GCD so you can't just running around dodging everything and avoid all the mechanics without penalty.

Don't assume I'm please with the path of Summoner in HW, in fact it's the opposite. I think SE has giving up on pets jobs too on both SMN and SCH.

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They aren't, but I'm going to go ahead and say it, an improved version of the FFXI summoner is what I think this game should have gotten. In HW it's pretty clear they're basically abandoning pets for summoner and it's a shame as it's a system that I believe had a lot more potential.

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It's clear they backpedaled on the concept of Pet Class when the only new Pet action is a lvl 60 skill for Scholar that reads "Orders your pet away while granting you a full Aetherflow stack. Also increases healing magic potency by 20% for 35s (PvP 45s).
Summon or Summon II cannot be executed while under the effect of Dissipation."

So basically they are in favor of doing away with Pets rather then having them around. Hilarious. And you know how many new Pet actions Summoner got? None.

I look at summoner in ffxiv and see simalar to yuna in ffx she both summoner and healer, ifrit in ffxiv is damager deal pet, titan is off tank and garuda is dps pet. sure that alot learn about summoner and improve but ffxiv isn't a finish product, you see mmo are work in progress even after launch they may want change thing or they keep thing they way they want it it just game in motion

Let's take your Yuna example further. Yuna constantly gets more summons and Summons that matter, comprise over 80% of her damage meanwhile you have this poor excuse for a Necromancer whittling down enemies with debilitations and using a short buff trance to do a small burst of AoE and all the summons or moreso familiars stopped obtaining abilities at lvl40.

We are lvl 60 now. I think there is a problem. And btw small nitpick but damage dealing and DPS usually equate to the same thing. Only difference Garuda offers is Contagion and magic damage while Ifrit offers a Shield and Physical damage.

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If we get a pet class, I'd want the focus to actually be on the pet and commanding it. Not on it being something that just supplements the job's damage.

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Such as FFXI SMN's core system. And even BST. Actually, PUP too, they were built around the pet.

my issue with Necromancer maybe alittle religious sorry i am a christian. also believe that jobs should ff base since never been a good guy nercomancers in ff i feel this job might not be best ideal

I'm surprised that they didn't at least add Shiva as a new pet for SMN.

I so want bst be able have drakes as pets

If they add more pet jobs then I hope the pet will play a larger role in that class' gameplay than the current ones. What I mean is that I'd like the main skill rotation to consist of skills that control the pet and not the player character like the current jobs are.

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Originally Posted by liljramos88

Chocobo Knight- I know this may sound odd but a chocobo Knight will be cool. Using the chocobo as support. Would love to bring my chocobo with me in dungeons

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Chocobo Knight is already in the game. As a title you earn during the main story quest. It was translated into "Cavalier", but is "Choco Knight" in the Japanese version of the game.

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Originally Posted by Khalithar

I want to agree with the topic but I honestly can't bring myself to and I'll tell you why, MMO design nowadays has turned pets in to little more than a glorified DoT while the player does the majority of the work.

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One thing leads to another, because for balance purposes you have to make the pet easy to kill, but if you make the pet's input too important to the class' performance, that class becomes useless or a sitting duck if the pet dies (specially in PvP). But if you make the pet too strong you invite other problems.

Imagine if a SCH's healing was entirely dependent on the fairy (SE could have easily made SCH's baseline healing weak but with a buff so long as the fairy was active or by gating Adlo/Succor/Lustrate/Sacred Soil et al behind having Selene or Eos active). With pets being able to be three-shot by boss mobs, a SCH with a dead fairy would literally be useless to their group.

There's a reason pet classes are notoriously difficult to balance, and the approach taken here and in other games with them is one of the easiest ways to deal with that problem without spending too much time in the buff/nerf rollercoaster.

PS: Summoner is still about summoning things. You're just summoning controllable fragments of a primal (egi) instead of the big primals that would be impossible for you to control on top of possibly being able to temper you. There's lore reasons as to why SMN in this game works the way it does.

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I know of the lore, I'm looking at things solely from gameplay. What new pets did smn get? Zero. What new pet attacks did smn get? Zero. How many new pets did sch get? Zero. How many pet abilities did sch get? One, an ability that dismisses the pet entirely to increase your healing power. At this point, I'm convinced that SE has basically abandoned the pet system.

As far as a more recent pet class which is a comfortable medium, a good example would be blade and soul's summoner, without the pet it is basically half a class but the pet is both strong and durable but not TOO hard to kill in pvp (depending on your class/build that is, which is perfectly fine imo) and if you kill the pet the smn is pretty easy to take down, but it also doesn't just die from random aoe, you can rely on it to stay alive and doing a good portion of it's abilities while you attack from a distance and on top of that it does it's full damage without you needing to take control of it outside of toggling off it's taunt move in group PVE.

So the summoner in that game:

1. The pet is critical to your performance and the defining feature of the class. Without it you're at less than 50% effectiveness.

2. The pet isn't too durable in PVP and not too squishy in PVE. (I will grant for the PVP community in that game, summoner is very powerful in PVP at low levels, but at the cap when everyone has all their abilities it's only about average).

3. It will stay alive through random aoe because of built in self healing but will die to focused damage from a boss.

I believe that could be feasibly done in this game.

Edit: From the BNS website:

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The Summoner and their Familiar are a team, fighting together to overwhelm their enemies. The Familiar rushes into the thick of it, dealing heavy physical damage and holding the attention of their opponent. Meanwhile, the Summoner hangs back, supporting their Familiar with long range skills that both help their feline friend and hinder their shared enemy.

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In practice, the summoner has a variety of DoT's, direct damage spells, CC's, and debuffs they use while the pet does the majority of the direct damage.

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I know of the lore, I'm looking at things solely from gameplay. What new pets did smn get? Zero. What new pet attacks did smn get? Zero. How many new pets did sch get? Zero. How many pet abilities did sch get? One, an ability that dismisses the pet entirely to increase your healing power. At this point, I'm convinced that SE has basically abandoned the pet system.

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Considering all they want to do with pets at this point is glamour...yeah they long abandoned them.

lore has become important to square enix and summoner summon egi of beast tribes gods. am I say the summoner is evil no i am not. I know lore around is the bst is there, that important. the approach with summoner is different but interesting.

I stopped leveling SMN at 53 once I realised I'm not getting anything apart from more flashy animations that improve my damage output. I'm really disappointed in the job at this point.

As someone else said, a pet job should be about controlling the pet.

Here is hoping that SE implements PUP <3 or something along these lines.

I would love PUP or BST! When I think about FFXIV SMN it reminds me a bit of Aion's Spiritmaster (which I enjoyed playing!) but I think for me what was great about that was that the pets evolved over time, you got higher rank summons that got more powerful. It'd be great if they could at least let the egi grow over time visually and maybe the potency of their attacks goes up or something... to at least make it feel like what we are summoning is getting more powerful as we level up.

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I know of the lore, I'm looking at things solely from gameplay. What new pets did smn get? Zero. What new pet attacks did smn get? Zero. How many new pets did sch get? Zero. How many pet abilities did sch get? One, an ability that dismisses the pet entirely to increase your healing power. At this point, I'm convinced that SE has basically abandoned the pet system.

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Now these are fair points. There's not much I can add since I agree with you on this.

Anyway, this discussion got the wheels in my head turning, so here's an alpha version of something that I'm sure some people won't like:

Arcanist

Summary of changes

- Ruin gains extra potency on targets with Bio and Bio II on them. Total potency of a target with Bio and Bio II on them is 100.
- Bio stretched to 30s duration but nerfed from 40 potency to 25 potency per tick.
- Miasma changed from a single-target DoT to an AoE DoT. Is no longer affected by Bane. No longer applies Malady or Weight. MP cost increased to double of current amount to compensate.
- Sustain buffed to a total of 30% of pet HP recovered, but spread over 15s instead of 10s.
- Bane now spreads only Bio and Bio II. No longer has a chance to refresh durations.
- Eye for an Eye's cooldown reduced to 120s baseline.
- Rouse removed. Replaced by Emancipation.
- Miasma II removed. Replaced by Affliction.
- Shadow Flare now requires Aetherflow and is instant cast.
- Enhanced Pet Actions changed to pets gaining additional damage per DoT on the target.
- Pet damage resistance to AoE attacks increased.
- Reduced chances of being interrupted by damage when summoning.

Abilities

01 Ruin - Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 80.
02 Bio - Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 25 for 30s (combined total potency of 250). Adds 10 potency to Ruin if used on target affected.
04 Summon - Summons a caster-type pet to fight by your side.
04 Physick - Restores target's HP. Cure potency: 400
06 Aetherflow - Restores 20% of maximum MP. Additional Effect: Aetherflow. Cooldown: 60s.
08 Energy Drain - Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 150. Additional Effect: If under the effect of Aetherflow, absorbs 50% of damage dealt as HP and restores MP.
10 Miasma - Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 20 to target and nearby enemies. Additional Effect: Unaspected damage with potency of 25 for 24 seconds (Combined total potency of 220).
12 Virus - Reduces target's STR and DEX by 15% for 10s. Cooldown: 90s.
15 Summon II - Summons a tank-type pet to fight at your side.
18 Sustain - Continuously restores 6% of summon's HP over a period of 15s (total 30% of summon's HP).
22 Resurrection - Resurrects target to a weakened state.
26 Bio II - Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 35 over 30s (combined total potency of 350). Adds 10 potency to Ruin if used on target affected.
30 Bane - Spreads a target's Bio or Bio II to all nearby enemies with remaining debuff duration.
34 Eye for an Eye - Erects a magicked barrier around a single party member or pet for 30s. Barrier Effect: 20% chance that when barrier is struck, the striker will deal 10% less damage for 20s. Cooldown: 120s.
38 Ruin II - Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 80. Additional Effect: Blind for 10s.
42 Emancipation - Resets the cooldown on pet abilities and removes all status ailments on pet. Cooldown: 240s.
46 Affliction - Reduces target's HP recovered by healing magic by 20% for 24s. Additional Effect: 40% Heavy for 24s. Cooldown: 30s.
50 Shadow Flare - Envelops a designated area in a veil of magicked shadows, dealing damage with a potency of 25 to any who enter for 30s (combined total potency of 250 per target). Additional Effect: 5% of Slow. Can only be used while under the effect of Aetherflow.

Traits

08 Aetherdam - Allows the stacking of one Aetherflow.
14 Enhanced Intelligence
16 Enhanced Intelligence II
20 Maim and Mend - Increases base action damage and HP restoration by 10%.
20 Aetherdam II - Allows the stacking of up to two Aetherflows.
24 Enhanced Pet Actions - Pet abilities deal an additional 5% damage per damage over time effect on target.
28 Supervirus - Adds 15% Intelligence and mind enfeeblement to Virus for 12 seconds.
32 Enhanced Intelligence III
36 Energy Siphon - Doubles the amount of MP restored by Energy Drain.
40 Maim and Mend II - Increases base action damage and HP restoration by 30%.
40 Aetherdam III - Allows the stacking of up to three Aetherflows.
44 Enhanced Pet Resistance - Reduces pet's damage taken from indirect/area-of-effect sources by 20%.
48 Fortified Summoning - Reduces your chances of being interrupted from taking damage while casting summoning spells by 60%.

Notes

- The point of these tweaks is to remove some of the pet abilities from ACN. This leaves ACN to be focused on DoTs. and some debuffs.
- To clarify, Enhanced Pet Actions now increases the damage your pet deals on a target that has DoT effects on them. Ideally it is balanced around targets under the effect of Bio, Bio II and Miasma. Shadow Flare may also count as a DoT effect, but I'm not sure about it at the moment.
- Pet Resistance is there because I've seen pets get 3-shot by AoEs in dungeons. Not sure if this is a problem in savage content, but I thought it might be nice.
- Emancipation I feel would be a helpful cooldown to have in certain situations, and I see both SCH and SMN benefiting from it.

Summoner

Summary of Changes

- Tri-bind removed. Replaced by Egi Siphon.
- Spur and Rouse have been sort of combined.
- Dreadwyrm Trance and its associated abilities have been removed.
- Egi ability spread has been reduced from 5 abilities to 4. As such, Contagion, Landslide, and Radiant Shield are gone.
- Egi ultimate abilities (Inferno, Aerial Blast, etc) no longer have a cooldown but can only activate via Enkindle.

Job Abilities

30 Summon III - Summons an attacker-type pet to fight at your side.
35 Fester - Cause wounds inflicted by your damage over time effects to fester, dealing damage with a potency of 150. Refreshes the duration of Bio, Bio II or Miasma on target. Can only affect spells cast by you. Can only be used while under the effect of Aetherflow.
40 Rouse - Increases a pet's physical and magical attack power by 50% for 20s. While roused, pet will be immune to stun, sleep, bind, heavy, paralysis, and disease for 20s. Cooldown: 60s.
45 Egi Siphon - Absorb 30% of your current Egi's HP, generating one stack of Aetherflow. Cooldown: 45s.
50 Enkindle - Commands pet to use its signature attack. Cooldown: 180s.
52 Summon IV - Summons a crowd control-type pet to fight at your side. (this would be Shiva-Egi)
54 Elemental Wheel - Summons egi corresponding to your current egi's elemental wheel for 20s. Cooldown: 60s. (see notes)
56 Chandrahas - Summons Ravana-Egi to temporarily fight by your side for 15s. Upon expiring, performs Chandrahas, dealing damage with a potency of 200 to target and nearby enemies. Additional effect: Increases target's damage taken by 5% for 10s. Cooldown: 90s. Can only be used while under the effect of Aetherflow.
58 Summon V - Summons an anti-caster pet to fight by your side. (this would be Leviathan-Egi)
60 Trine - Delivers an attack with a potency of 200. Gains 100 potency per additional active egi. Can only be used while under the effect of Elemental Wheel and Aetherflow. Requires two stacks of Aetherflow. Consumes Elemental Wheel upon use.

Garuda-Egi

Wind Blade - Deals wind damage with a potency of 110.
Shockwave - Deals wind damage with a potency of 90. Additional Effect: 15-yalm knockback. Cooldown: 90s.
Aerial Slash - Deals wind damage with a potency of 100 to target and all enemies nearby it. Cooldown: 30s.
Aerial Blast - Deals wind damage with a potency of 250 to target and all enemies nearby it.

Titan-Egi

Rock Buster - Delivers an attack with a potency of 85. Additional Effect: Increased enmity.
Mountain Buster - Delivers an attack with a potency of 70 to all nearby enemies. Additional Effect: Increased enmity. Cooldown: 15s.
Earthen Ward - Decreases damage suffered by pet by 20% for 20s. Cooldown: 120s.
Earthen Fury - Deals earth damage with a potency of 200 to all nearby targets. Additional Effect: Razed earth for 15s.

Ifrit-Egi

Burning Strike - Delivers an attack with a potency of 120.
Flaming Crush - Delivers an attack with a potency of 110 to all nearby enemies. Cooldown: 30s.
Crimson Cyclone - Delivers an attack with a potency of 110. Additional Effect: Stun for 2s. Cooldown: 40s.
Inferno - Deals fire damage with a potency of 200 to all enemies in a cone before it. Additional Effect: Fire damage over time with potency of 20 for 15s (combined total potency of 300 per target).

Shiva-Egi

Ice Brand - Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Absolute Zero - Delivers an attack with a potency of 80 to nearby enemies. Additional effect: 50% Heavy for 10s. Cooldown: 90s.
Dream of Ice - Prevents target from acting for up to 15s. Effect ends upon taking damage, using another action or moving. Cooldown: 30s.
Diamond Dust - Deals ice damage with a potency of 250 to all nearby enemies.

Leviathan-Egi

Aquabreath - Deals water damage with a potency of 90.
Spinning Dive - Delivers an attack with a potency of 70. Additional effect: Silence for 3s. Cooldown: 30s.
Gyre Spume - Links target with a Gyre Spume, reducing target's magic potency by 20% for 10s. Effect ends if the Gyre Spume is destroyed. Cooldown: 120s.
Tsunami - Deals water damage with a potency of 200 to target and nearby enemies.

About Elemental Wheel

This ability uses the 1.0 elemental wheel that separated elements into two sets. Fire => Ice => Wind being one, and Earth => Lightning => Water being the other.

The ability basically summons the egi that compliment the wheel. So if you have Ifrit-Egi active, clicking on the ability will temporarily summon Shiva-Egi and Garuda-Egi to do their thing. As of right now, all they can do is auto-attack and contribute to Trine.

Because the Earth/Lightning/Water part of the wheel is not complete (I'd plan Ramuh-Egi to be the first thing you get upon hitting lv62), Using this while Titan-Egi is active would just summon Leviathan-Egi (and vice versa). Once you get Ramuh-Egi at lv62 you'd be able to summon the complete second wheel.

Notes

- This concept focuses a bit more on the pets, with abilities and utility coming via the pets themselves.
- I wasn't kidding when I said Levi-Egi could be a good anti-caster pet. It'd probably become one of those pets good for PvP or for fights where you need interrupts.
- Egi Siphon came about because I feel SMN should have an additional way to generate Aetherflow stacks. I originally wanted it to sacrifice the egi but that didn't pan out once I wrote it down.
- Trine was inspired by this. And it would follow a similar principle, since the three active egi would perform a sort of combination attack, dealing the damage. Since the ability consumes Elemental Wheel, the other two Egi vanish after you use Trine.
- Because the second elemental wheel is incomplete, using Trine while Titan-Egi or Leviathan-Egi are active delivers an attack with a potency of 300. Once you get Ramuh-egi it'll go back up to 400.
- I'm sure some would hate to see Egi go down to 4 abilities from 5, but egi having 5 abilities is part of what can create too much overlap between them. For reference, the template class used (WoW Warlocks) have pets with 3 abilities each without counting the passive stuff.
- Pet scaling may need to be bumped up a bit more. I haven't done the math on how big a nerf this is for SMN.
- As far as room for potential growth, the 60-70 questline could involve not only Ramuh-Egi, but also Bismarck-Egi as a temporary summon along with the ability to weaken yourself (or maybe just consume 3 aetherflow stacks) to empower your egi's. Think of it along the lines of how Pokemon evolve.

Let hope Yoshi P pay attention to this post, if we keep going it get more attentions.

Now is time form question to ask yoshi p if there future pet jobs mind you

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-3.2%29/page23

I have suggest to improve the summoner summon. in spell casting in games usually a spellcaster get better with time. my suggest is to introduce the merits system but have in quest for. for example titan could grown bigger but your master of him get stronger. you have job traits merits such as summoner int goes to the egi hp and ap. they also an alpha form and and gamma form to the egi it work for all the jobs.

Something should be done with summoner I enjoyed blade and soul summoner it felt more like a symbiotic relationship of the two. Would be great to have the pet focus and the caster support. Not the other way around were we cast and they just attack.

pet ui , control of a true passive/aggressive ability/ terrible aggro holding ability and re-establishing aggro from the loltitan "tank" egi etc...all this needs a complete revamp and upgrade before any new pet jobs are introduced imo.


They missed the mark and need to copy a game that did it right.

WOW did an excellent job with pet UI, control/abilities/maintaining and re-establishing aggro aggro/ etc, ffxi did a horrible job with bst with the control of ones pet general, horrible!! They did great though with ability to heal ones pet unlike in here.

IF they adapt ffxiv to match wow ui mixed with parts of ffxi, then I would LOVE bst added and even PUP!! Could be quite fun IF designed properly.

I feel there is two options either change summoner to focus on trances like summoners in older ff games we're the summoner will leave field summon will do powerful attack and back with the summoner. Feel like that's that they try to do with smn in HW. Or update the pets and make pets more viable.

More? We need one functioning one first.

Summoner is not a 'pet' job in the least lol. Fix that first, then we'll talk...

I'm still waiting on that DOL class, Shepherd, that has been rumoured since before version 1

Ive been wanting a BST tank for awhile now. There could be so many fun mechanics on a class like that.

I love see bst and puppeteer. here the thing about jobs. there importants that jobs fit in trinity. sometime they over balance one part of jobs over the others.

More? We had a real pet job?

...Oh, someone beat me to that comment. Figures.

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How to make a real pet job out of Summoner:

Synopsis: The arcanist itself is now much more of a master tactition, capable of storing or redirecting nuke hits (from a vulnerable target to a de-vulnerable one for the same damage), mitigating damage dealt, laying traps, heals, or buffs about the field, etc., while transfering power back and forth between itself and its pet, via Rifts. Summoner, however, goes well beyond that; and is easily 10x more complex than anything currently in the game, albeit in a manner that rewards adaptation and fight-specific knowledge far more than stringent rotations. Whereas others focus on their openers, the Summoner focuses even into "builds" via one pet to be "burst" or "ramped" with another, finalizing perhaps 3 minutes and 4 pets in with a particular nuke strategy, any part of which might change at any time. Put more simply, their gameplay itself now depends on and is interwoven between their pets. Different pets provide different gameplay through additional embedded and triggerable mechanics, and have different advantages within a given fight in terms of macro-rotation, be it for stacking up potential damage quickly or melting down DoTs for instant damage or an all-in-one Burn DoT via Ifrit, or even consuming your Garuda to grow wings and cast not only unfettered by movement restrictions but with powerful haste procs and storable Ruin Rifts to utterly storm down your enemies. You may now consume Aetherflow stacks on pet buffs (Rouse) and pet actions (Spur), and may generate Aetherflow stacks through certain actions or procs via your new pet mechanics. You can now cast in an aspected spell series (replacing any to all among Ruin I-III, Bio I-II, and Miasma I-II with new abilities) based on your current pet via a freely toggleable Trance. All Aetherflow uses provide an Aethertrail stack within the element in use at the time of the case (that of your Trance or Pet, or unaspected). Altogether, Summoner is now some ten times more freeform, versatile, broad, and deep in gameplay.

Points of change:

• The Summoner can now gain Aetherflow stacks through certain actions/procs.
• Summon II and Summon III no longer take up learned action/job slots. These are now essentially free additions given with their respective quests. Summon can now be used to select the chosen pet during the cast, or the chosen pet may be selected beforehand as currently doable (you make attach the particular pet's summon to your hotbar. The Arcanist level 15 ability is now Rift and the Summoner level 30 ability is now Trance, both explained below. Needless to say, Summon IV-VI can now also be given, for free.
• Rift, the new level 15 Arcanist ability, allows you to place a Rift about a chosen location, ally, or foe, causing a following spell to charge its cast at that location, triggerable at a later time, or to redirect, source, or sabotage a given magical attack. It has heavy utility usability, including laying Speed traps/gates via Selene or Garuda, health pools via Eos, etc... The function of Sustain can be performed by using Rift in conjunction with the associated aspect or unaspected of magic on your pet. (A Bio II, for instance, will deal a multiplier of its normal damage as healing to your pet; using the opposite element will damage but with additional effects - Fire on Shiva creates fog, and lightning on Titan deals damage to nearby enemies based on lost defense.)
• Each SMN pet has two new caster-affecting gameplay mechanics. One is more basic, but can be buffed by buffing the pet (via Rouse). The other is a bit more gimmicky and unique, and is gained by 'eating' your pet (via Avatar). (Ifrit gains Ignite and Fiend; Garuda gains Fell Wind and Cross-Wings; Titan gains Resonance and Slag.)
• Trance, the new Summoner level 30 ability, replaces any among to all of your Ruin, Ruin II, Bio, Miasma, Bio II, and Miasma II abilities with equivalents aspected to your current pet. Additional effects and conditions embedded within feed a secondary gameplay style, or thematic mechanic, for each pet. Costs mana, but you can leave Trance at any time for free. No cooldown.
• Rouse now consumes Aetherflow, lasts 30 seconds, and tapers off in effectiveness over time. Its cooldown has been reduced to 10 seconds. Using Rouse applies an aspectually-aligned Aethertrail.
• Spur has been moved to level 40, swapped with Tri-bind. It now uses a strong, unique pet ability at Aetherflow cost. Its cooldown has been reduced to 10 seconds. Using Spur applies an aspectually-aligned Aethertrail.
• The effects of Fester now vary with Trance and Aethertrails.
• Tri-bind has been replaced by Collision, which connects a set of Rifts for additional effects. Cooldown is based on the effects caused. The ability may still be used while on cooldown, but at greatly diminished effectiveness. This can now be your most powerful nuke, by potentially storing, say, a Flaming Crush, Aerial Blast, and a Ruin III all together. (Think of it as if Tri-disaster created something really worth its name and image, like a giant Blizzard IV stalagmite cutting through a portal into the same space that a Fire III and a Quake are blasting into.. albeit with that as a 1-minute cooldown, and taking far longer than that just to prepare.) Empty Rifts triggered by Collision pull enemies to them, knock enemies away, or bind them.
• Enkindle has been replaced by Collapse, which will consume your pet on the next Trance or Spur.
  When consumed for an attack, it deals an effect similar to Enkindle.
  When consumed for Trance, it causes an Avatar effect, consuming your pet to give you its buffs, a unique bonus, and aspectually enhanced abilities for up to 1 minute.

  Consuming Garuda causes you to grow wings, allowing movement during casts, a dash ability, greatly enhances attack speed via procs, allows you to form Ruin Rifts about yourself off-GCD, and causes your attacks to give brief crit bonuses and your crits to improve your attack speed - Spur applies a triple attack, knocking back nearby enemies while spreading projectile feathers and then circling them on first use and launching those feathers towards target location, enemy, or ally on the second (dealing less damage in the second stage based on damage done in the first); it is now your kiting, gambling, gattling gun attack rush. Ifrit gives you a flaming, hellish bladed arm that applies increased physical defense and makes your Ruin I, II, and III instant while applying or consuming additional effects, and allowing you to place Rifts on yourself to deal their damage to self and all enemies around you - Spur breathes Hellfire; it is now your cleave rush. Titan gives you a pauldron of aethereal rock, increasing magic defense and greatly increasing physical defense, and allowing you to place Rifts on yourself to place an absorption shield and repair any lost bonus (m)defense, while storing the mana that was cost within your armor to consume or explode at a later time - Spur uses Tremor, a single pulse that deals earth damage with a chance of (repeating) knockback, heavy, and/or slow based on your Earth Aethertrails; it is now your utility/defense trick arsenal.

• Painflare now varies with Trance and Aethertrails. (May rename/rework to make cooler/more unique)
• Dreadwyrm Trance has been replaced with Full Trance, which consumes all Aethertrails to assume a stackable pseudo-Avatar state. This can stack with Trance or Avatar.
• Dread Flare has been replaced with Dust to Dust (or "Aether to Aether"), which consumes all Trance bonuses for a finishing attack based on said bonuses.

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On topic: I'd like to see a Beastmaster done right. Though admitedly that's half out of wanting to move XIV away from its stale design styles as for any love of Beastmaster itself (certainly not for love of its XI iteration).

I hope for Bst use a whip to debuff the enemy and the tamed animel that permit as tank to tank the enemy