On "Pets"

[Gramul]

So if it wasn't clear before it should be obvious now. We're going to have some sort of crazy pet system. How about a thread on speculation regarding how they'll work and what critters you'd like to see. How they work in other games, how Square might innovate on the old idea and the good and/or bad the type of feature can bring to ARR.

My money's on eventual moogle companions.

[Cale_Imrik]

I want all pets to have access to the same bonuses..that way we don't have everyone with Baby Behemoths because they have the best bonus. Maybe have a tiered levelling system, with say 3 options per tier.

Tier 1 could be:

Pet automatically holds all Materia for you.
Pet has a quiver, holds extra ammo.
Pet does a trick (Could have 3 useful abilities, but some people would probably like to level up pets just for vanity).

Final Tier could be things like taking items to a vendor for you, or allowing access to retainer in the field.

Bonuses would be pet specific, so you could have a different pet for different occasions..
I'm chilling around town, I want to use my vanity pet with fun abilities (Bomb) VS I'm going to level archer, I want my quiver pet (Behemoth).

[Punainen]

I kinda think they might be useless beyond being adorable things that will follow you around and possibly copy some of your emotes. I'd love an extra-cute Mandragora.

[Warlock]

I want all pets to have access to the same bonuses..that way we don't have everyone with Baby Behemoths because they have the best bonus. Maybe have a tiered levelling system, with say 3 options per tier.

Tier 1 could be:

Pet automatically holds all Materia for you.
Pet has a quiver, holds extra ammo.
Pet does a trick (Could have 3 useful abilities, but some people would probably like to level up pets just for vanity).

Final Tier could be things like taking items to a vendor for you, or allowing access to retainer in the field.

Bonuses would be pet specific, so you could have a different pet for different occasions..
I'm chilling around town, I want to use my vanity pet with fun abilities (Bomb) VS I'm going to level archer, I want my quiver pet (Behemoth).

Why this behavior keeps popping on a RPG O.o come on dude if there isn't a worst to best scale on everything ...you're doing it wrong

[Cale_Imrik]

Why this behavior keeps popping on a RPG O.o come on dude if there isn't a worst to best scale on everything ...your doing it wrong

You're absolutely right, it's so much better seeing every single person with both the exact same armour and exact same pet -.-

[Enkidoh]

Although I don't really care too much about having a monster for a pet, I'd rather Yoshi-P make use of that wasted potential from 1.0, the Path Companion, and allow a player to summon him or her for assistance when needed, like the NPC Fellow players could get in FFXI.

Monster pets are one thing, but there would be nothing like summoning a roegaydn PGL NPC to your side to help beat up that mob that foolishly decided to pick a fight with you.

[Warlock]

About pets ....just for looks or for battle?

[Linkurrra]

Well considering Dragoon's are Dragonless in XIV. I'd like to have a Dragon pet!

Or better yet! Beastmaster job! So awesome!

[xXHalloweenTrixXx]

I love pets even if they are simply there and pretty much useless xD. If they do bring pets, I hope some pets are rarer than others to attain xD.

[Antanias]

Will there be an option to cook our pets?