Pet jobs QoL ideas

[Rufalus]

This might be polarising and probably bad timing to suggest a major rework but I've been thinking about streamlining pet functions. The goal is essentially folding pet abilities into the moveset of the caster/player to improve responsiveness and reduce the button bloat of optimal play.

1) Pet is always summoned automatically eg switching to SCH job makes a fairy appear immediately and it is always out (apart from when Dissipation is used; fairy automatically returns once debuff timer has expired).

2) Buttons such as Summon 1/2/3 work like an ability / stance toggle. No cast time for rapid switching of pet type but can have a cooldown on it, like 60 seconds for example. Attacks used by each summon are condensed into the same buttons eg Garuda's Contagion and Ifrit's Radiant Shield share the same hotbar button; the hotbar reflects whichever summon is currently in use like War's Fell Cleave and Inner Beast sharing a button.

3) As far as the system is concerned, pets are no longer really pets, do not use the pet hotbar, do not have their own HP value. They are integrated into the caster's moveset like demi Bahamut. The only difficulty here is transitioning the tank-type pet which would be too useful if it were unable to die, in which case it must be a limited temporary form like the Bahamut. Sorry, other ideas welcome.

4) Mch turrets follow behind the player when not engaged in combat. When engaging an enemy, the rook turret automatically moves into firing range of the player's target the same way smn's sic-egi currently works, and the bishop turret automatically moves directly onto the target. The last turret type used is automatically recalled when turret overload debuff has expired. Don't need to manually recall a turret if the tank player moves the enemies since turret adjusts positioning itself.


edit: nevermind, the live letter just confirmed almost everything I asked for is already in development lol. thank you