A Point to Minions

[Airget]

We should be able to have pokemon battles with them.

It is something they could implement later on, a Pankration like concept from XI.

Each minion would have it's own special ability and traits, and much like pankration you could go out into the open world and obtain data to augment the stats of the minion of your choice.

Offer a variety of vanity gear as rewards, furniture and maybe even pvp rankings, team based battles etc etc and can develop a little fun competitive monster vs monster battles.

[chumsy]

someone mentioned, adding minions giving additional stat boosts/resistances/etc based on which minion you have out. I think that is a neat idea, and it isnt too game breaking because the stats would just be something minor like +3 mind or whatever.

[JayCommon]

Minions are there simply to be displayed

Totally agreed, except they can't always be displayed. It really irritates me that they can't be out in dungeons/instances/trials. If they gave us a meaningful open world than I could understand it. I'm to the point where I just forget to bring it back out because I'm in a duty and it automatically goes away. I don't care about stat bonuses or anything like that, they are supposed to just be for show. But you can't even show them in 80% of the content most players participate in. So annoying.

Let us have our minions in dungeons!!!!

[RaideDuku]

Thing is, if the buffs are small to the point of being inconsequential, why bother having them, anyway?
We don't need to have a minion battle system. What kind of stupid company wastes time and resources to make a minion battle system? .......
I would like it if you could have minions as yard decorations for housing, and they'd wander your yard. Maybe play/fight with each other.

[Wyvernheart]

Minions are a waste of company resources. gimmicks, bells or whistles, with little no no worth. May as well work on the look of grass... (Remember the thread?)

[Devils_Lawyer]

I agree on the pokemon idea.

It would be neat to be able to use minions to fight other minions/mobs to gain exp and abilities just for fun.

[Marishi-Ten]

Minions are a waste of company resources. gimmicks, bells or whistles, with little no no worth. May as well work on the look of grass... (Remember the thread?)

THAT'S RIGHT! You go whip them into shape!

na.square-enix.com/us/jobs

Let me know how the works out.

I feel a mix of contempt and pity for people that can't just have fun with something and have to be so incredibly negative.

I like the Pankration idea and would love to see something like that in place. It's true that not everything has to be about combat and min/max. Sometimes it's just nice to actually have fun playing.

[tymora]

Doesn't take up inventory space...so who cares!? Collect them all!

[LordPhantomhive]

For example: The Little Cherry Bomb minion could give like +5% fire resistance, and the Wind-up Airship maybe a 10% off flying on airships (Giving an incentive to actually use the airship is a + lol).

I forgot this game had airships <.<;

[Felis]

PS3 limitations :P

Player limitations