Suggestion - Minions need more screen time

[Assirra]

In dungeons i don't mind but please not in any 8 man content.
It's already hard enough to see the difference between the face and the butt of a boss with a million spell effects going on.

[Piamette_Buttlass]

In dungeons i don't mind but please not in any 8 man content.
It's already hard enough to see the difference between the face and the butt of a boss with a million spell effects going on.

Yeah I'm fine with minions being barred from anything above 4-man, as well as nameplate changing, or untargetable, etc. I just really would like them in 4 mans as well as being allowed with my chocobo.

Also perhaps have various toggle-able features that allow people who don't want to see minions to not see them, even in the open world if possible. I don't really care. The dodo is for me ^_^

[Ashkendor]

Won't happen cause PS3 Limitations™.

[Skivvy]

My friend had (what I think is) a really spiffy idea. If they gave special buffs/bonuses to each of the minions, it would make them a lot more fun to collect, and actually useful!

These would just be minor things like regen, refresh, str+, movement speed+, exp gain+, seals gain+, etc. The more rare & difficult minions could give higher returns on the buffs to make the effort spent getting it worthwhile.

[Piamette_Buttlass]

My friend had (what I think is) a really spiffy idea. If they gave special buffs/bonuses to each of the minions, it would make them a lot more fun to collect, and actually useful!

These would just be minor things like regen, refresh, str+, movement speed+, exp gain+, seals gain+, etc. The more rare & difficult minions could give higher returns on the buffs to make the effort spent getting it worthwhile.

I have played a game that implemented this, and it honestly made the pet system really unfun. People cared more about min-maxing, which of course means requiring higher end pets and potentially pets you don't even really like. I just want my Dodo to hang out with me. Sometimes I like to "pretend" it's my companion (instead of Chocobo) when I do easy hunts, but I wouldn't actually want it to grant a benefit. Just an aesthetic quality of life change is all I ask.

[Shiroe]

allow smn to use minions as skins for their pets (for garuda, let them glow yellow, for ifrite glow red and titan glow orange..., so everyone knows which pet is being used and that its a pet..)

edit: and allow sch and mch too.. (add other glow colors or mini symboles for the diffrent classes.., on cost of some animations)

[Piamette_Buttlass]

allow smn to use minions as skins for their pets (for garuda, let them glow yellow, for ifrite glow red and titan glow orange..., so everyone knows which pet is being used and that its a pet..)

edit: and allow sch and mch too.. (add other glow colors or mini symboles for the diffrent classes.., on cost of some animations)

I honestly don't know what this post is saying or what it has to do with my thread. This isn't about guardian pets/summons/turrets/fairies/whatever. Everyone knows what they are already.

edit: Ok my BF explained to me what you mean. I think that would be very confusing even with glows (distracting imo) as much as my Scholar would love to have Dodeos (forcing me to return to maining Scholar, of course). It's an interesting suggestion nonetheless but doesn't really have to do with what I'm asking for in this thread. Sorry.

[Shiroe]

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np

was just a general suggestion to giving minions more screen time.. ,I wouldnt mind a glow, since smn pets already have like a glow (or "aura") to them