Suggestion - Minions need more screen time

[Doki]

At 100+ minions you should unlock an armor set that looks like this, but with minions:

[Ayuhra]

I would love to have a minion out more often. Make them not clickable in dungeons and I am okay with them not being out at all in Full Parties since that might stress the servers.

And being able to have a minion out is one of many things I wish I could do with my Chocobo out.

When I get a Haurchefant minion...and I *WILL*...he'd better be able to stay at my side, SE.

[Eul]

Let me use wind-up Sun Minion when I'm in a dungeon! Sometimes I want some extra light to screenshot with!

Yeah~ especially when we're inside dungeon/caves.

[TouchandFeel]

All I read was more Fledgling Dodo and I immediately agreed.

Most of all I want to be able to place minions inside my personal house, yard and FC room and they just sort of pace around the area I place them at.

[Marxam]

I just got the lesser panda and I NEED it to be sitting on my shoulder when I'm riding my fat chocobo.

[Piamette_Buttlass]

All I read was more Fledgling Dodo and I immediately agreed.

Most of all I want to be able to place minions inside my personal house, yard and FC room and they just sort of pace around the area I place them at.

<3 to the first part.

The second part would be AWESOME.

Thanks everyone for their support!!

[Piamette_Buttlass]

I just had another thought which has occurred to me numerous times in the past. Even without my Chocobo summoned, in the open world, while I am in combat I cannot summon my dodo (replace name of your preferred minion here). This seems to have no reason behind it whatsoever. Please free the dodos. And their other friends.

[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 ^_^

[Jeykama]

re: accidentally clicking on minions when the enemy list is full of stuff -

I assume you can make targetting macros in this game... can you? It would be silly if you couldn't. :<

Unless I'm plain unaware of the option, making a macro to target a specific enemy is not possible. /targetenemy just targets the nearest enemy and /target only works on PCs. Therefore for minions in duties to work in a large aoe situation where you have to find the needle in the haystack (eg A2S) they would have to not be targetable at all.