Bring back dragoon pets!

[Windwalker]

A pet would lower a DRG's damage, but give the pet more survivability, for example reduced damage taken from AoE like in WoW. Pets in WoW survive or are almost immune when taking damage from AoE as they have about 70% resistance to AoE damage.

I loved the idea of DRG pets in FFXI and their different abilities such as healing, damaging and tanking.

Wyverns would be awezome for Dragoons and would make the job feel a bit more special compared to Warrior, besides, i played SMN for a bit in phase 4 and it feels more fun to have a pet to watch over than just focusing on your characters abilities, i myself love multitasking as i have played a hunter in WoW. Its fun to lay out traps, send the pet out to attack and then just comboing the mobs down.

I read some that DRG pets used to die alot in FFXI and reduced damage from AoE would fix the problem, aslong as the pet does not get the aggro of the boss mob you would do fine.

I noticed alot of mobs in FFXIV deal AoE damage and pets are hard to control once theres an incomming AoE attack.

[DeeBeeP]

Now that they have a more fleshed out companion system I would love to get a Wyvern back. Yoshida has already said he wants to put flying mounts in the game and we already have our mounts doubling as fighting companions. Perhaps we can get larger Wyverns than we had in XI that not only fight by our side but we can also mount and take to the skies!

[Windwalker]

That would be awezome, hehe. I heard that Yoshi maybe would bring flying mounts to FFXIV, but that would require alot of work, like a new expansion.

[Ryuhkin]

This was a huge topic before, but I'll summarize it.

1. Dragoon has only ever had a pet in XI. They're not an aspect of Dragoon itself, and not something the team wants XIV's DRG to have. ^^
2. MRD/WAR is a tanking class, DRG is a DPS.
3. There were words of flying content and mounts in a future expansion. I'd love to see a dragon mount for this, yes, but not a pet. :x

[Oats]

Actually I'm with Ryuhkin. It was "interesting" with the wyvern in FFXI but I would much rather not have one in FFXIV. Mount: +1, pet: no thanks

[Arthur_Sataine]

I'm with the latest two on this one. Dragoons aren't about the pets. Sure, we can command, control, and slay dragon type monsters. But, I don't see much need in having a baby (I'd assume) one as a pet. To me, it would just get in my way and hurt my damage output.

I'll take a flying, multi-seat dragon mount though.

[elmattias]

I played goon in ffxi, and I got to say, the goon in ffxiv FEELS more like a traditional goon, I like this better, so yeah, hold the pets please.

[Trayes]

I'll be honest. I loved the pets. I do wish we had them back but a lot of people would rather just play a normal DPS class with a pointy stick. I love playing a guy with a pointy stick that also controls dragons.

That's just me.

[StreamMonster]

Dragoons slay dragons not keep them as pets. If you want a pet class we have Summoners.

[RafeMacleod]

Dragoon is my fav FF job. Unfortunately the wyvern was the reason DRG was so bad in FFXI. I loved playing it, but I always felt like a second class damage dealer (because I was). I love the new lancer in FFXIV and from what I hear dragoon sounds awesome.

Wyvern minion is fine. Wyvern companion is great. Wyvern pet is a no no.