[REQUEST] New Fight Able companions

[Nalien]

Companions shouldn't be unique characters. I don't want to see two cids running around for example. Breaks immersion, cheapens the game and completely unnecessary. Just give us nobody recruits to train like adventuring fellows, can even use the guilds to facilitate this.

Personally, that level of immersion has already been broken for me, given I'm the only adventurer who was chosen by the Eye to become the second Azure Dragoon, and the one who holds the last Summoner Job Crystal, and so on... You know, the only adventurer, apart from every other adventurer... I don't find having something like having 10 Sylphies' running around healing people to be any more problematic, and I'd much rather have companions with character, than some dull everyman... Path Companions would perhaps be nice, but all their character came from their involvement with the MSQ IMO, and they're unlikely to get that back...

I'd actually say it's cheaper to just slap some random character on us for additional Companions... Final Fantasy, for the most part, has been about traveling with fairly memorable characters... It makes more sense to me to adventure about with Cid, even if there are several other people doing the same thing, than it does to play with some randomly generated character...

[Ulathskullsplitter]

Would be nice if there was ever any content added that actually allowed us to use the current companion we have let alone looking to add more of them. Deep dungeon would have been the perfect opportunity to allow us to go in solo with our chocobo companion. Leveled mine to 20 a long time ago and haven't touched it since.

[Kallera]

^This....I was really looking forward to this in ARR...and then my sad face materialized when I heard they would replace it with a chocobo companion, yes chocobos are well and good but...i want something more from my companion.

Enkidoh pretty much said it...I loved the way they had their own "personality and story", I don't doubt alot of people would love a feature like this added...the dev team could easily adapt the retainer character creator to a path companion character creator and they could even expand on it , I do hope Yoshi and the FFXIV dev team gives it a second consideration of adding Path Companions back into the game in a future update or expansion.

Yes please! I miss my Roe something fierce!

[LLSmoothJ]

I'd love to be able to use alts for companions, but if we could use retainers I'll be happy.

[Letbluevannback]

Companions shouldn't be unique characters. I don't want to see two cids running around for example. Breaks immersion, cheapens the game and completely unnecessary. Just give us nobody recruits to train like adventuring fellows, can even use the guilds to facilitate this.

There's Minfilias everywhere already.... Whatever damage that could've done has already been done.

As for me I'd just love to be able to summon mounts to walk by my side, even if they weren't fight-able. Or like the wolf pup minion who pretends to be fighting when you engage. It'd make them feel those mounts more real and less like walking robots.

And on the topic of mounts not looking alive, could we please have some idle-animations for them? Why can the chocobo companion look around but when it's mounted it only stares straight with a dead fish gaze?

[Ransom]

There's Minfilias everywhere already.... Whatever damage that could've done has already been done.

As for me I'd just love to be able to summon mounts to walk by my side, even if they weren't fight-able. Or like the wolf pup minion who pretends to be fighting when you engage. It'd make them feel those mounts more real and less like walking robots.
And on the topic of mounts not looking alive, could we please have some idle-animations for them? Why can the chocobo companion look around but when it's mounted it only stares straight with a dead fish gaze?

I don't see the wind-up minfillia as illusion-breaking, after all, it's a wind-up doll of her, not her. Still... Have you ever read the description for the Alphinaud wind-up? There's sixty thousand of the things in Rowena's warehouses. Scary Child's Play vibe right there my friends.

[Nalien]

I don't see the wind-up minfillia as illusion-breaking, after all, it's a wind-up doll of her, not her.

I think he is referring to the Minfilia outfit anyone can buy off the Mog Station.

[Nici]

I think he is referring to the Minfilia outfit anyone can buy off the Mog Station.

Yeah i think that's what he meant, but can't we just pretend and chalk that up to minfilia being a trend setter...everyone wants to wear her skimp outfit.

[DarkSlayerGrimm]

Retainer Companions >.< I would love that soo much somewhat like swtor companion system

[Lendle]

There are quite a few people in the game right now that have rank 20 chocobo companions with 0 applicable use. It would be nice if they introduced something to go along with companions, certain dungeon / areas / ect. As it stands now, there is not a whole lot of content that even makes use of a companion due to face roll easy overworld.