Dragoon is coming, but will our gallant companion be joining us?

[Lylle]

Despite being in FFXI, I don't want the wyvern back. I prefer the jumping/elemental-breathing/hp&mp-draining/etc dragoons.
Don't want to be a pet class, that's not what a dragoon is meant to be, imho.

[Vackashken]

I would love Dragoon to get its pet back. They could build upon all the abysmal things they messed up and dumbed-down in 11. I am for my little buddy back all the way. I don't know why people are bothering to say they aren't part of the typical lore. Thats meaningless - FF lore changes every incarnation so if people want it back in 14 its perfectly reasonable for it to happen. Hell, although there is no way it could be proven empirically I bet most 11 Dragoons would love to have a better more intuitive version of their buddy back.

I sure as well would.

[Nuru]

Well with PvP going to be introduced, if Dragoons had pets, they'd be frowned upon.

[shotta77]

Gamer Escape: It feels like Dragoon could have ties to Ishgard. Will Ishgard be coming soon? Or will that be arriving after 2.0?

Yoshida: Currently, the story that we are preparing for patches 1.20, 1.21, and 1.22 is continuing this story that’s about the coming of the Seventh Umbral Era and the threat that looms on the horizon that nobody knows about that is coming and will come. Ishgard, while playing a small part, they won’t be playing a large part and the reason we decided to do this is that we have something really big planned for 2.0 that features Ishgard and it features some type of content that we want to have a lot of players be involved in at the same time. But with the current graphic engine you can’t display more than 40 characters at a time so releasing it at this time with our current engine wouldn’t make it as exciting as we intended it to be. So we’re going to wait till we have that new graphic and server foundation before releasing that content because we feel it will have more of an impact if we release it at 2.0.

As for Ishgard being part of the Dragoon back story… that will probably be done through quests. There will be some ties to Ishgard like talks about “the legendary Dragoon of Ishgard” and following in his footsteps. So the quests will be touching upon Ishgard, but those big “go to Ishgard and do stuff” type of content is going to be for 2.0. But it’s going to be one of the main things we’re going to want to push for 2.0 because we feel it’s going to be something that will hit the players and they’re really going to enjoy it.

[Daenerys_Sedai]

How about some winged transformation? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYUXNu83dQw

That was an entertaining game.

[grandm]

I actually wouldn't mind there being a pet, but that was unique to FFXI. I'm sure its been stated plenty of times that Yoshida wants to steer clear of this game becoming FFXI-2. Not saying that it shouldn't be implemented, but the general idea would be to make Dragoon a bit different, perhaps without a companion. We still don't know much about the jobs yet though.

yes this. as the dragoon having a dragon, is not his most stick out trait (jump is). the main place where the dragoon had a dragon is FF11 and yoshi has stated he don't want to make FF14 in to another FF11. i can't see you getting your dragon. but he did say other pets will be added i.e. magitec armour. maybe the dragon will be added like a chocobo. but not be draqoon only. was it FF5 i think that we got to ride our first dragon that wasn't dragoon only.

[Belial]

I do not want a Wyvern. Whether or not they can be mixed with lore in a productive manner is moot, if I wanted a pet wyvern I would go out and pick up FFXI. I want a unique class that does not resemble SE's last incarnation of an MMO Dragoon.

There are many other options available to obtain pets in the future, Dragoon does not need to be one of them, especially with it being the only strict melee DD available in the game. Maybe PGL too, but it along with MRD and GLA have tank-role flexibility.

[Vackashken]

if I wanted a pet wyvern I would go out and pick up FFXI.

Or the people who do would like to see a better more intuitive version of it and a new take on its implementation. Theres always that version of the want :P

[TheVedis]

Dragooon companions were a FFXI thing
every other dragoon in FF history were a "jumping" class

[Arcell]

Dragoon without a wyvern is not a dragoon. I think they won't be a wyvern at start but they will implement it later.

Damn, someone should really tell these guys that they're not actually Dragoons. How sad.