A Point to Minions

[Aero]

I get that Minions are basically used as a, "Oh my, this is cute, haha great!" type of thing, but I wish there was more of a point.

What I am really getting at is this. I'd like it to where each Minion gives you an incentive for having it out. It doesn't have to be anything incredible, but something that can give people a reason to have their cute creature out.

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). Some minions could increase stats by like 3. Nothing huge, but a slight incentive regardless.

And for you super balance crazed people. Just put a slight cool down on how frequently you can bring out minions.

TLDR: Minions need small stat benefits or gameplay benfits to give them more of a purpose than just a cute thing following me.

[Ferth]

As someone who generally dislikes novelty items in games I absolutely love the wolf pup.

I really want to raise him as a companion.

[jomoru]

*Points to the windup pointer*

[Aero]

As someone who generally dislikes novelty items in games I absolutely love the wolf pup.

I really want to raise him as a companion.

Just think, if you had your wolf pup out and he increased your Vitality by 20! WOOOT! SO COOL!

The wolf pup is incredibly cute though xD!

[Zfz]

I disagree.

Ifrit Ex! Experienced only! Bring your Bomb Minion! No minion = kick.

Minions are lacking, true, but I disagree with tying it into combat. What it needs are truely cosmetic things, like:

• More interaction between different minions. Tonberry sneaking up on the Minion of Light? Slime Puddle spurting poison and infecting nearby players with a cosmetic debuff (which drops upon entering dungeons).
• More interaction between player and minions. Emotes to pat minions? Auto summon specific minions when changing to specific jobs?

The point to minions is the cosmetic value. Not everything have to have a combat value.

[Aero]

*Points to the windup pointer*

JUST IMAGINE! If your Windup pointer allowed you to navigate menus 25% faster! Lol or something more realistic like, Accuracy + #.

[Sunah]

What really needs to happen is.... More minions. Because we are truly lacking quite a bit. Also... allow us to use them in duties damn it.

[Autumnfire]

TLDR: Minions need small stat benefits or gameplay benfits to give them more of a purpose than just a cute thing following me.

At first I wanted to refute this… but then I thought about it some more and realized that I'm not entirely opposed to it. As long as the boost was incredibly minute, and related to the minion. Like, if you had a Baby Bun out you'd get like +1 poison resistance, or something. The other cool thing about this is that since you can only have minions out in open world content, then these boosts are only good for open world content….

… yeah I like your idea.

[jomoru]

JUST IMAGINE! If your Windup pointer allowed you to navigate menus 25% faster! Lol or something more realistic like, Accuracy + #.

I'm pointing to a minion isn't that what you were asking?

[Aero]

I'm pointing to a minion isn't that what you were asking?

Oh. Oh. Oh. You defeated me with cleverness. I, Aero, will now walk the walk of shame...