New Job Idea: Puppetmaster

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Old idea, same job.

Commenting on OP's suggestion, the pets have too many abilities. The issue I have with Maneuvers is the risk of running into instances where you do nothing but input maneuvers (that and maneuvers sort of became the foundation for NIN Mudras). AI in this game is pretty wonky, so placing too much hope on the mammet/automaton wouldn't be a good idea, IMO.

I like that you want the master and mammet to use skills in tandem, but I'd scrap the whole skillchain bit (latency and lag would screw you over, for one). Unless I guess you want to involve a debuff of sorts, kind of the debuff 1.0 used to show the mob would be affected by combos. Kind of like you use your attack, the mob gets a debuff called "Combo!", and if the mammet does their attack, then you get the skillchain effect.

I figured Overload was more of a pacing mechanism in FFXI (since Maneuvers cost nothing but time), though I have to commend you on putting Overload to use in some way.