Dragoon pet

[Kiote]

In an Ideal world, Dragoons would both have a pet and not have a pet. A Diversion of the Popular stance Idea that has been completly over looked by the Yoahida Dev team.

Stance 1: Dragoon + Wyvern - FFXI style, Dragoon fight along side of pet. Pet has various skills it uses in conjuction with specific Dragoon Skills and Combos - DD specializing in Combo Bonus Damage and Party Support

Stance 2: Dragoon absorbs Wyverns power - Grants access to Breath Attacks, Jump Bonuses and various other Dragon-like skills. - DD Specializing in Critical Damage (Not Some kind of timed buff, a literal toggle skill.)

I gotta say though, if I can only have one or the other. I'd rather ditch the Pet and have cool skills like Breath Attacks. Both have there advantages, pet would make the class more player skill centric and not pets would allow for Epic looking skills. I want my fights to look epic so I would have to lean toward no pet.

[KevLar]

Just add a Wyvern that pops up as part of an animation to a WS. It can swoop in and nose dive, then gives you a high five, fist bump, or the truffle shuffle as it zooms away.

[Obsy]

No thanks to the pet. The background story in XI for a wyvern worked well enough, but XIV's lore and Ishgardian history is already well enough established, and it doesn't look like a map re-design is going to throw that out the window.

...not to mention that etymologically, "Dragoons" were mounted infantry. Nothing more. If they're eventually working to include fighting alongside (and possibly even on) mounts in the future, then that base will be covered.

[PartyTime]

Please do not add wyvern pets.

I really want to play a traditional style DRG in a MMO. XI is the FF that created this strange DRG pet class hybrid and personally I don't care for it at all. If you feel like you NEED to play a pet class why not play something else or if it has to be a DRG with a pet why not just go play XI? Let XIV go in a different direction than XI not repeat its mistakes...

[Travesty]

Personally I'd like a Wyvern.

I played DRG in XI, and I look at it this way; if you offered to give me a slight boost in damage, but take away the versatility that the wyvern provided, not to mention an element of uniqueness to the job in comparison to other DD's, I would reply "hell no, good day."

[Corrderio]

Personally I'd like a Wyvern.

I played DRG in XI, and I look at it this way; if you offered to give me a slight boost in damage, but take away the versatility that the wyvern provided, not to mention an element of uniqueness to the job in comparison to other DD's, I would reply "hell no, good day."

Did you not read that interview about Dragoon?

[ellohwell]

why would you want some cutesy, tacky, ugly dragon pet anyway? This isn't monster-tamer online or Digimon. Jeeez.

[Valmonte]

I liked the 2 Staged Idea, not only will eliminate all this rabid fan in fighting on what dragoon should/shouldn't be. it would also satisfies this games apparent split of Hardcore/Party people from the casual/soloers and give situations that may call for different tactics. stage 1: Unsummoned pet Dragoon could get HP,Crit, ATT and M-def. Stage 2 summoned pet Dragoon could get bonuses to Def,Eva,acc and M-atk.

its not impossible.

[SilvertearRen]

They're giving people who stay, a chance at getting a Drake mount.

That, in my opinion, is as good as it gets for the Dragoon. :3

I don't want my stats to be gimped just 'cause Dragoon ended up as a pet class. Waste of time, waste of dev resources better spent elsewhere...

Keep the Dragoon in XIV close to the "original" design of Dragoon in the Final Fantasy series, please.

Important thing to remember: XIV heavily damaged the franchise. What's the best way to fix that? By going back to the original source material...

And I'm talking about Kain Highwind from FF4 and Freya from FF9, not McDerp The Dragoon from XI.

[Coldbrand]

I sure as hell don't want to get gimped for a stupid wyvern again. No Yoshida, piss off. Jumps are more than enough to serve as a focal point for the job.