Wryvern done right

[Rowe]

I know many players have been begging for dragoons to get a pet wryvern like they had in FFXI. I'm not one of those people, I don't want dragoon hobbled due to a wyvern or shackled to a wyvern.

Since Yoshi's-P mentioned the possible addition of wyvern for dragoons I have been concerned. The simplest solution to a problem is the most elegant and probably never the one used to address any issue in this game.

So how would I add a wyvern, simply as an alternate companion. No need to nerf dragoon. What it would open the door to is additional job specific companions down the road such as bears for warriors, lions for paladins and so forth.

Just don't make it another useless minion.

[Seif]

I really hope it has some gameplay function. Even the minions are sort of pointless now because so many of them have little to no unique functions.

Also because I need to press a button to bring it up means that my minion is almost never in use anyway.
Look around in town. It's clear that majority of the players just don't care about the pets anymore because they're just nowhere to be seen post-launch.

[ruinedmirage]

If he gets a companion that can level up, why can't my unicorn/lion/magitek? --->
If his chocobo can breed with other chocobos, and my wyvern can level up the same way, why can't my wyvern breed? --->
If his wyvern can level up and breed, why can't my unicorn/lion/magitek? --->
Eventually, my point leads to equality for racing, leveling, and breeding of all mounts after much, much, MUCH forum "discussion". That's a lot of time and resources that may or may not be in the works.

I +1'd the OP, because it's a good idea, but I foresee so many, "why don't I get candy, too?!?!" threads.

[Niqote]

Just add it to the singular LB as a visually pleasing spirit of the dragoon (not as a silly little mini dragon)

1. Lore is safe - Dragon killers are not fostering a Wyvren
2. QQs get a dragon in some form
3. ???
4. Complain about new thing

[Tharian]

The only concern I have with making the Wyvern a companion, is that it would link the Wyvern to the party list. Meaning that if you had 8 people in your party, you could not pull out your Wyvern. Additionally it means that you can't use your Wyvern in Dungeons. Part of the whole point of having a Wyvern on a Dragoon is that the people asking for it want to be able to use them in their dungeons. Or at least I would assume so anyways.

[Nalien]

Just don't make it another useless minion.

With The Stone Vigil (Hard) coming up, I wouldn't hold my breath.

People who want a Wyvern in any real capacity in XIV just need to get over the fact that XIV is a different game and that's not what the developers are going to do. At best I'd hope for a Wyvern Barding.

[Rowe]

The only concern I have with making the Wyvern a companion, is that it would link the Wyvern to the party list. Meaning that if you had 8 people in your party, you could not pull out your Wyvern. Additionally it means that you can't use your Wyvern in Dungeons. Part of the whole point of having a Wyvern on a Dragoon is that the people asking for it want to be able to use them in their dungeons. Or at least I would assume so anyways.

That's the problem as Yoshi said if they make it so you can use a wyvern without the limitations imposed on a companion then they have to nerf dragoon to balance out the game.

I'd rather have a wyvern as a companion than a big yellow chicken. I'd rather not have a wyvern if they weaken dragoon as a result.

[ZyloSladek]

Hope the wyvern comes in the form of a class specific mount.

[Gardes]

Just put wyvern as the new lvl 55 job skill. Have it be a long cooldown summon (5 mins) and have it stick around until it dies. While it's up and around, it'll attack whatever the dragoon's attacking..for 1 damage (it's a baby). Attach a trait called soul link to the drg and wyvern and whenever the dragoon gets damaged, the wyvern takes damage instead. The wyvern is not as resilient enough as the fairies or egis but is able to take half of the dragoon's hp in damage.

There, no increase in drg attack power. Increase in survivability instead. Can also be lore friendly (drg stole a wyvern egg and is now using it as a hostage and a meat shield).

[Tharian]

problem with your idea Gardes is that we aren't likely to get the level cap increased until Version 3.0. We only just got Version 2.28. We still have to go through versions 2.3 to 2.99 yet before they even consider releasing version 3.0. That could be over a year now before that happens.