Dragoon pet

[Teakwood]

Whoops, which FF was DRG a positional crit-master in? I must have missed that one.

P.S., I think now it's my turn to reference the Dragoon in Final Fantasy II that had an alliance with a wyvern.

But, no, you're totally right, there's nothing at all new about the idea of DRG as a pet job, it's a decade old, and it never really worked very well in the game it was in. Do I think they couldn't possibly ever make a Dragon-as-a-pet-job type thing work in FFXIV? Naw, and I actually like the idea of it as an eventual other available job for Lancer, even.

I'd just much rather see FFXIV's Dragoon be a departure from FFXI's Dragoon.

[AmyRae]

Whoops, which FF was DRG a positional crit-master in? I must have missed that one.

I'm going to go with Kain from Final Fantasy 4, who was a crit-master from the position of...

The sky!

...after dodging a mega-boss's fatal desperation attack that wiped the whole party except for Kain who escaped the whole damn thing. So cool...

What I'm saying is, we need bad-ass dragoons like that again. Wyvern husbandry was nice, and all, but I'm all for going back to the roots. So many Final Fantasy titles have dragoons as a "jumping" job, and with so many great characters in that role (even a Cid, once). Pets were just a gimmick of FFXI, which is fine, but it's a clearly a variation and not the tradition of the role.

If they could implement some amazing, tactical, breathtaking jumps for dragoons, it would be the best thing ever. Far more than any pet would be, at least.