Quote Originally Posted by Kio View Post
If anything, I hope that maybe SE will do a compromise, and just make it so that dragoon will be in tact solo, but when he/she summons the wyvern, at that point the stat different is deducted and granted to the wyvern. Maybe a percentage so that improving your own stats will also improve the wyvern as well. In this way those who poo-poo the wyvern aren't forced to play with it summoned without consequence (but without benefit), and those who wish to use the wyvern may do so at any time they please.
Our real point is this - it's not that we hate wyverns on principle, but that the balancing job of (as you say) "splitting stats between the two of them" or balancing the occasional breath weapon alongside a FFXIV DRG's attacks is going to be ridiculously hard, if not impossible, to do. We can't see how it can be done without ultimately gimping the player in a very mechanical way- much the same way that DRG was a long-time underutilized class sometime between the launch of FFXI and Abyssea. 'loldrg' didn't spring up for no reason whatsoever, and it's this past experience with DRG being a pet job that many of us are not keen on seeing it as a pet job again.