Dragoon needs a pet

[Zumi]

Dragoon doesn't do that great damage to start with it feels like they need a pet wyvern. It's traditional and they had a wyvern in FFXI. It just feels wrong playing DRG without a pet.

[MaethusXion]

Traditional... I'd rather go with a dragonlike mount than a SMN-type pet. I remember the one in XI didn't do a damn thing when I used it, no matter what I subbed.

[Kitfox]

My DRG does damage just fine...

[Sephirah]

Dragoon doesn't do that great damage to start with it feels like they need a pet wyvern. It's traditional and they had a wyvern in FFXI. It just feels wrong playing DRG without a pet.

Even though I do miss the wyvern from XI, lore wise, Dragoons are Dragon Slayers (hence the spear and jump attacks - to impale dragons), so it doesn't make much sense for them to keep one as a pet or battle companion. And maybe I'm missing something but I haven't heard too many complaints about lack of DPS from Dragoons.

[Gilraen]

This has been discussed before and it just wouldn't work. Mostly because XI is the only game where the Dragoon had a pet. In XIV, though, the pet would fly in the face of the job's lore of... dragon slayer. A wyvern being a baby dragon it'd... well, it'd be dead.

[Tupsi]

This has been discussed before and it just wouldn't work.

The first Dragoons in the series were raised/lived along side Dragonkin of all types (Wyverns specifically.) They even retconned the DRG story a bit which actually does leave it a bit open for us to be "different."

Sorry OP, you're talking to the wrong community, especially since most usually jumps on someone's case for being narrowminded or "living in the past" but forget that FF is an ever evolving series, MMOs in particular - No one but SE knows what they're doing with the entire story, look at XI's stories - You're a simple adventurer yet in CoP and ToAU you (adventurer) defy the "norm" all the time. Even in the offline series. DRGs by lore are slayers, you, as an adventurer can follow your own path.

[Andrien]

Traditional Dragoon had no pet, didn't need a pet, and they slay Wyverns/Dragons.

Want a pet? Use your minion, or Chocobo companion.

[Alhanelem]

Dragoon needs a pet

No, it doesn't.

FFXI is the only game where dragoons had a pet, and it can stay that way since the wyvern was mostly crap anyway.

[Kletian]

I want to KILL dragons, not rely on an easily killed baby one I can't control for a significant portion of my dps/class balance budget.

[Zenaku]

Yoshi-p said that one they lancer could get a job that would have a pet. But DRG job itself would remind without one because the lore for ffxiv does not support the pet. It work in FFXI because you save a egg and when the wyvern came out you became the first drg not to kill them but have one as a pet. I guess they could have done that in ffxiv but come on let's not copy lore from ffxi.