The Poll question about player classes, specifically pet classes.

[Wicka]

EDIT: lemme get more detailed

I see it more along the lines of

Summoner:
Main Class: CNJ
Minor Class: THM PET
The summoner is a support style charcter that can also participate in damage dealing. Giving it elemental magics and curatives alllows it to freely be a DD or fall back on support. But thats just the player. Each summon would have its own unque abilites to bring to the table. And dont say OMG THATS TOO MUCH LYKE FFXI SUMMONER, because think about it, how is a summoner supposed to exist huh?

Beastmaster
Main Class: PET
Minor Classes: ??? ???

I dont know, really but being a beastmaster means having full control. Being an absolute master of the pet class. Beastmaster should be the job, not the class.

Puppetmaster
Main: Either PUG or PET
Minor: PET if PUG is Main and ???

Puppetmaster would either be from PUG or the new pet class. in the case of pug, it would use the pet class's supporting abilites the same way a summoner does. A Close combat evasionist DD with supporting abilites of an interchanable mammet. I say pup should major PUG because there is a mammet right there in the platinum mirage.

I like most of what you said. I just think that it would be nice to be able to use your desired pet from level 1 as well as in parties. The pet is what makes the class special. Summoner is cool, but having only 5 summoner specific abilities makes being summoner not so different from being Puppetmaster or Beastmaster. And its the same with the others as well. Going from having tamed mobs to having a puppet doesn't make much sense. The way you presented BST made much more sense, I think. You went from a Pet class to a pet job, where both are based around the same pet type, making the Job abilities mesh with the base class abilities.

I just think it makes more sense to have the specific pet type available from level 1. And then have either 3 unique jobs, or a more generic pet job that enhances the abilities of your pet regardless of pet type.