What Pet Classes Would You Like To See

[Altena]

I was personally not a huge fan of pet classes in XI, although many people were. They just seemed kind of hmmm.. lonely? Most of them were solo jobs (well... 2 of the 3, excluding DRG even though it had a pet). I like to play an MMO with a group. If I wanted to solo I would play an offline game for that personally. I do like the chocobo concept, as long as it's done right, and as long as the AF gear for choco's don't end up looking dumb.

So I will take one of the latter options and adopt a rock.

[Chronic]

Beastmaster FTW

[Warlock]

This made me laugh XD.
In all seriousness now we know about arcanist/summoner that said, I would like to see Beastmaster fighting with tamed beasts alongside combined with a jug pet that would jump in to do a special move then leave kind of like street fighter lol, and make beastmaster care about his pets providing some type of armor for the pets .
Now for puppetmaster FFXI's was fine but in 14 add more fluid full of action moves for the automatons and allow PUP to use 2 or 3 automatons at a time

[A_Hortensia]

This world needs more of Jake the Dragon Baby.



Best damn healer in the game.

Usually...

[Sanne]

I love pet classes. I love animals in real life, and I would love that my character has a animal they bond with, that follow them around in their adventures.

I actually hope that the chocobo companions will have a lot of options in how you can train them.
Creating a tank, DD, mage or healer chocobo, of course never as good as a real player, but good enough to be useful.

Also I hope for some kind of loyality system, feed them, do some things to make them happy.

Maybe a few personalities also? I probably go to far now.

I would love to see puppetmaster also, I loved that class, my friends played it, my Puppetmaster is only 15, maybe I will level it up when I wait for FFXIV 2.0.

I enjoyed beastmaster also, but I prefer to have a pet that I can name and always have around me. A bit like WoW hunter I guess.

Ultima Online had the most fun petclass for me, but that probably because it was the first MMORPG I played and the first pet class I played.

Taming a dragon, was fun, it killed me a few times, but that is part of the fun. I still remember Angel my White Wyrm that I got from a friend, and Bossy my first own tamed White Wyrm who killed me when I tried to tame it, and who always seemed to fail more commands then Angel, and of course Spirit my loyal Nightmare. Taming them, naming them, training them, feeding them, sometimes sell them.

Also a fun class in Dark age of Camelot was Animist, you could place plant turrets around who had a certain range and would attack (or heal) anything in range, and some other turrets you could give commands. It was an interesting class back then.

The hunter from WoW was also ok I guess, I don't remember much from it to be honest, but I liked that it stayed with you and leveled up, and got their own skills.

[Duelle]

I was personally not a huge fan of pet classes in XI, although many people were. They just seemed kind of hmmm.. lonely? Most of them were solo jobs (well... 2 of the 3, excluding DRG even though it had a pet). I like to play an MMO with a group. If I wanted to solo I would play an offline game for that personally. I do like the chocobo concept, as long as it's done right, and as long as the AF gear for choco's don't end up looking dumb.

XI's pet classes were built around singular uses, and by design were either best-used for menial tasks (/WHM for summoners) or excluded entirely from party play barring class stacking (beastmasters).

The reason I approve of their approach to Arcanist and Summoner is that it has a good chance of keeping SMN away from the nonsense that doomed it in FFXI. Being weak or useless 90% of the time while being strong and useful every two hours was never a fair tradeoff to me.

All I hope for is that beastmasters are given a similar treatment, where synergy between the BST and their pet will benefit them and the party. I'd take the Kill Command concept and expand it to synchronized attacks between the BST and their pet, while still allowing both to function individually.

[Cedri]

Chocobo Knight > all pet classes.

[Punainen]

What?? No love for Puppetmaster??

I effing love Puppetmaster!! I really hope it returns (but isn't so damned expensive this time around).

[Punainen]

This is quite funny (I did laugh), though at least this necro thread is still halfway relevant. We get SMN, but I'd like to see other pet classes (PUPPERMASTER).

[theomen]

I remember lving bst in ffxi and it was by far the must fun and frustrated job but it felt glory when i hit 75 b4 they made it ez