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#28 Apr 08 2012 at 3:27 PM Rating: Excellent
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What most casual players don't see is really good DDs fully buffed. The difference is night and day. And that is where basic misunderstandings come from


Is this really relevant, though? Any well-geared, fully buffed job is going to faceroll in terms of damage. Yeah, some jobs have a higher max potential when fully buffed, but at that point the only difference is who wins the epeen parse. The odds of picking one DD over another, and having that be the difference between life and death, are negligible.

How many hours per week do you spend with two bards and a corsair buffing you vs solo/lowman with either no buffs or just haste?

Basically, unless your primary goal in the game is to win parses in zerg-fights, I don't think picking a job based on that top-end fully-buffed potential is really going to improve your gaming experience.
#29 Apr 08 2012 at 3:58 PM Rating: Good
There are a handful of really damn fine PUPs out there, and I'm privileged to know a few of them, but the average PUP is just a mediocre DD, I'm sad to say.

For every top notch PUP out there, there's five or six top notch SAMs, WARs, or MNKs to match.
#31 Apr 08 2012 at 9:24 PM Rating: Good
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It's an average DD until the puppet gets killed by AoE, then it's a supergimp MNK while they chew on JA delay or have to move out of range trying to get it back up.

"Has access to great DD tools" does not mean it can apply them steadily and readily for that matter. Puppets are still rock-stupid. If you're talking about PUPs with Vereth, they'd do more damage by switching to MNK main.

PUP is good for free powerful nukes, ranged damage on enemies with powerful but <10' AoEs, or making old content laughably easy to solo with Valoredge and cannibal blade. You're assuming that because PUP is some godlike machine of death in one area, that it can do all these things better than jobs dedicated to such.

A real BLM will always outnuke a BLM puppet, mostly by not being stupid.
A real RNG will outdamage a RNG puppet, mostly by not being stupid.
A real WHM will out-heal a WHM puppet, even if just as stupid (which would be someone who can't wipe their own ***).
A real DD will outdamage any puppet and the master, particularly because real DDs aren't stupid and don't sit on 300tp waiting for their master to get to 100tp to SC with.

PUP's greatest failing has always been the puppet AI. The only reason many mobs in this game are any semblance of defeatable is because they are f*cking braindead retarded. Puppets are hardly a step above that.

You're confusing PUPs POTENTIAL, quadruple emphasis to get past your reading difficulties, with their actual performance. On paper PUP is amazing, in practice even with the best gear and parts... not so much.
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You particularly missed the whole "I've seen a Kenkonken PUP in action, I was not impressed" part.

Yeah okay. You're a waste of time as ever.
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#34 Apr 09 2012 at 4:28 AM Rating: Excellent
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PUP's greatest failing has always been the puppet AI. The only reason many mobs in this game are any semblance of defeatable is because they are f*cking braindead retarded. Puppets are hardly a step above that.


Pretty much this. Robot's AI, hell ALL pets AI is so poorly written that its your 5yo little brother playing at the computer next to you. Heck the 5yo could probably do a better job. AI is too random in this game including NMs.
#35 Apr 09 2012 at 7:19 AM Rating: Good
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It's an average DD until the puppet gets killed by AoE, then it's a supergimp MNK while they chew on JA delay or have to move out of range trying to get it back up.

"Has access to great DD tools" does not mean it can apply them steadily and readily for that matter. Puppets are still rock-stupid. If you're talking about PUPs with Vereth, they'd do more damage by switching to MNK main.

PUP is good for free powerful nukes, ranged damage on enemies with powerful but <10' AoEs, or making old content laughably easy to solo with Valoredge and cannibal blade. You're assuming that because PUP is some godlike machine of death in one area, that it can do all these things better than jobs dedicated to such.

A real BLM will always outnuke a BLM puppet, mostly by not being stupid.
A real RNG will outdamage a RNG puppet, mostly by not being stupid.
A real WHM will out-heal a WHM puppet, even if just as stupid (which would be someone who can't wipe their own ***).
A real DD will outdamage any puppet and the master, particularly because real DDs aren't stupid and don't sit on 300tp waiting for their master to get to 100tp to SC with.

PUP's greatest failing has always been the puppet AI. The only reason many mobs in this game are any semblance of defeatable is because they are f*cking braindead retarded. Puppets are hardly a step above that.

You're confusing PUPs POTENTIAL, quadruple emphasis to get past your reading difficulties, with their actual performance. On paper PUP is amazing, in practice even with the best gear and parts... not so much.



I was going to stay out of this little fight between you and zelduh becuase you started off mainly correct. A top notch pimped to the 9 pup would have a hard time keeping up with a top notch equipped to the 9 drk war sam or another heavy DD. However this idea that they cannot keep up or beat another generic empy DD or magain DD is false and some of the the problems you listed here are as well. I don't have parses or real number to give you to argue that point so let me just list the points I can argue., If you want to argue the math or fine details of DD verse DD camwin or jinte would be more knowledgeable and be able to better debate with you rather then picking on the resident pup forum groupie.(Others may call him/her a trollXD)

Anyways from the top shall we. If any AOE is enough to kill pet since the various adjustments they made to the attachments, additional traits, and several ways a pup can heal their pet now it should be killing PCs as well. At least a good pups auto anyways. Also if a pup can't keep their pet alive for more than a minute they aren't worth the party slot anyways.

You keep quoting pup AI, and with random tidbits about it's AI that's simply not true. Is it AI perfect? **** no. The melee AI has always been functional so why you decided to list that I have no idea. The mage puppet AI got a work around a couple months ago making it functional and logical most of the time, I am not gonna lie and say it's suddenly perfect. It's not. Also this idea that the puppet will hold tp until the master has 100 couldn't be more wrong if you tried. You must equip a special attachment known as Inhibator for it to hold tp to do a weaponskill. No pup worth their salt would ever EVER equip that in a party situation and if they did YOU STILL BE WRONG. Reason why? The way that attachment works is it will weaponskill with the FIRST weaponskill it sees to make a skill chain with. No matter who or what made skillchaining possible whether it be another PC, another pc's pet, or the master themselves.

Finally this lovely little list you got here let me break it down for you

A real blms edge over an automaton is in their AOEs and ability to proc. If we are talking just raw damage potential it be a wash unless meteor gets involved. Automatons use to have a massive edge over blms due to ice maker but now the real difference is what I listed above verses a pup ability to sit there and nuke freely, if the pet dies just pop out another one. While blms have to watch their hate and only have manawall or emnitity douse as their defenses against hate(Since most mobs these days at least nms can break down a ss in 1 hit). Additionally the puppet can continue to nuke even while the master is double weak while a blm cannot.

A real Rng suffers the same problem as a real blm does and this is where puppets really shine. Our pets can pump out damage like crazy and not have to worry about gaining hate, they die? Dues ex automata,Ranger lost a lot of their edge since autos have gotten a severely good snapshot and barrage, However your right though a real ranger would out damage the puppet, That's when the masters damage would come into play.

A real whm would be able to out heal a whm puppet. your right here but your wrong on severity. Pups with their pesky limitless mp supply on top of the recent ai changes makes them around as good of healers as dancers. We can heal much more effective and provide a variety of buffs they can't while they have the edge of direct control. Also just like a good dancer can really put the spotlight on just how horrible a bad whm is a puppetmaster can do the same. So no it doesn't take someone who can't wipe their own *** to be as bad as whm frame puppet. Also I think there a body builder somewhere out there who really like to invite you to a locked room with fantastic drapes.

And well I already covered your real DD comment. Utterly and completely wrong.


Also I like to just make something clear. You mentioned the fact how easily autos die as one of their weak points and while it's not as severe the fragility of an auto as you make it out to be I just like to make a point. Our ability to summon pets on a 1 minute timer is a strength not a weakness. It's a strength to be able to unload massive amount of damage and completely loose hate for that damage when our pet dies. It's a strength for the master to be able to throw all of his accumulated hate on a then freshly summoned pet. So that the master can continue to provide damage without worry of gaining hate.

So I ask you, please stop on your little pup hating spree becuase like I said you are properly right about the best pup VS the best War or sam. But you are beyond wrong in just about everything else. So until you know a little more about pup, please, shut up.:)
#36 Apr 09 2012 at 9:07 AM Rating: Decent
So basically, Pup is about equal to a generic DD with a larger margin of Error, and at best below good DDs that have a smaller margin of error to work with unless the person playing has down's syndrome/has no clue about game mechanics etc., so it's a subpar DD.

I highly doubt Raelix is giving you 'hate speech', it's just the truth about the job. It would hardly be much different if they mentioned any pet job (this isn't including Drg). All of them are roughly equal to generic DDs at best when played right, and horribly behind when not.

Edited, Apr 9th 2012 12:10pm by Neisan
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it is a sub-optimal DD, not sub-par. Sub-par would be like touting a Staff build SMN is the **** because Ifrit has DA aura.
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Incidentally, I'm pretty confident that 90% of the dislike of PUP comes from the fact that if you say the word "damage" around a PUP player they launch into a 30-minute spiel about how leet they are and how there was this one party where they outdamaged a DRK and oh my frickin God I don't care.

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#39 Apr 09 2012 at 11:58 AM Rating: Excellent
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Have to weigh in on the PUP as DD discussion...

PUP is an absolute monster DD for non-zerg situations, and has a unique benefit of splitting damage (rough estimate 60-65% master/35-40% puppet) to aid in hate control if you're using a real tank. The combined damage of master and puppet, accounting for TP and WS from both, DOES beat your average similar quality geared DD. Obviously if we're talking 60-65% of your total damage coming from the master, the master themselves shouldn't be beating a competent and similar quality geared DD job (nor should the puppet beat a true RNG or BLM). But add in that other 35-40% from the puppet, and the good PUP usually wins. Another unique aspect of PUP is effectively hate free nuking, with strong maneuver/attachment-enhanced nukes, then a quick deactivate/re-activate to shed all hate. Huge benefit for fights where the mob is weak to magic and you're trying to have a tank hold hate (and if needed the master can even stay out of AoE range, or use a full strength BLM puppet to keep on DDing while the master itself is weakened).

The skill needed to effectively DD on PUP is also vastly overrated. Auto-attack, WS at 100tp, and add in the oh-so-complex step of deploying your puppet and cycling in some maneuvers (wind/fire/thunder or wind/wind/fire are your basic DD rotations with Sharpshot frame). I agree that only fools sit on 300tp waiting to SC with their pet... but Stringing Pummel or Victory Smite are strong options and can be used right away at 100tp (my MNK is jealous of not having Stringing Pummel). And the puppet will WS at 100tp on its own as well, adding a big chunk of damage (say, Armor Shatterer from the RNG frame, which gives solid damage AND a defense down effect on the mob that helps all DDs attacking that mob).

For pure damage on a controlled fight, PUP is quite simply a beast. Not that it doesn't have its downsides though:
* PUP isn't as good a zerg job as something like MNK or DRK.
* PUP has less tanking ability than something like MNK (counters).
* While the mage frames can compete on raw nuking power, or healing power (effectively unlimited MP to toss Cure VI spam), they can't compete in precise selection. BLMs can use the ideal spell for the situation (including procs), and have some great benefits like sleep and stun that the puppet doesn't get. WHMs can cast faster and use specific buffs/erase specific ailments from party member far better than a puppet.
* PUP is fairly weak in procs across the board (red, blue, yellow) for Abyssea content.

A few of the complaints I've seen are outdated and though they may have been true in the past, are not an issue now:

1) Long ability timers potentially leaving the master puppet-less and gimped are a thing of the past. Deus ex Automata (activate with lowered HP, which can be easily healed with the Repair JA and an Automaton Oil) is on a 1min timer. In the old days with a 20min Activate timer? Yeah, was a HUGE problem for the job. Now? Irrelevant if the pet dies, they're totally disposable.

2) "Difficulty" of playing/gearing PUP... also not really so much the case these days. In the old days PUP had few great options and had to work hard for the limited strong DD options. Now, it's on the normal good light DD pieces just like MNK, NIN, THF, etc. Get an Empy+2 armor set, an Empy or magian weapon (fire claws are great for PUP, and with Stringing Pummel being so good a pair of fire/STR path H2H arguably beat an 85 Verethragna since V.Smite isn't as big of a deal for PUP), some general gear that's the same as other DDs (Rancor Collar, Ocelomeh/Toci, etc), and you're set. No harder to gear than the usual DD. On the puppet side, most vital attachments are cheap, with the one big exception of a Turbo Charger (pet haste). It doesn't take a rocket scientist.

3) AI issues? Never have been a problem for the Sharpshot frame, the primary physical DD puppet. Just deploy the thing near the mob, let it attack, and cycle a basic set of DD-focused maneuvers (generally some combination of wind/fire/thunder). And even for the mage frames, AI issues have been drastically improved - and even before those issues mainly impacted the healer puppet, not DD.

Edited, Apr 9th 2012 2:02pm by Anza
#40 Apr 09 2012 at 12:15 PM Rating: Default
If you're fighting anything you need a 'real' tank for, an automaton won't be alive for very long.

That damage split may apply for weaker mobs, but I've never seen a maton come close to that. Only know bad pups etc., but as far as I'm concerned it's no different with avatars - they simply don't put out the damage I've heard others claim they do.



Edited, Apr 9th 2012 3:18pm by Neisan
#41 Apr 09 2012 at 12:29 PM Rating: Excellent
Neisan wrote:
If you're fighting anything you need a 'real' tank for, an automaton won't be alive for very long.

That damage split may apply for weaker mobs, but I've never seen a maton come close to that. Only know bad pups etc., but as far as I'm concerned it's no different with avatars - they simply don't put out the damage I've heard others claim they do.


The advantage to an avatar isn't the damage, although it's decent enough in the hands of a well geared summoner.

The advantage to an avatar, or any pet job, is ranged damage. You sic your avatar or your puppet or your sheep on the NM and you get the hell out of AOE range. The avatar will last the shortest amount of time, but can be resummoned instantly at full health. And as long as at least one pet is still alive in a multi-pet setup, the odds of any of the masters getting hate are really, really low.

#42 Apr 09 2012 at 1:14 PM Rating: Good
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I did all my defending of PUP a long time ago., don't give a damn much now if ppl like it or hate it(tho i had noticed before my current real-life imposed break that many ppl that swore PUP was crap and wouldn't be caught playing it to my face were actually lvl'ing it in secret-take that for w/e). But i will say something at this post---v

Neisan wrote:
1)If you're fighting anything you need a 'real' tank for, an automaton won't be alive for very long.

2)That damage split may apply for weaker mobs, but I've never seen a maton come close to that. Only know bad pups etc., but as far as I'm concerned it's no different with avatars - they simply don't put out the damage I've heard others claim they do.



Edited, Apr 9th 2012 3:18pm by Neisan



1- If you are fighting anything that needs a 'real tank', odds are its because the mob is pushing heavy AOE dmg moves and NO dd will be alive for very long. Anza even addressed the PUP perspective on these type mobs with.

Anza wrote:
1) Long ability timers potentially leaving the master puppet-less and gimped are a thing of the past. Deus ex Automata (activate with lowered HP, which can be easily healed with the Repair JA and an Automaton Oil) is on a 1min timer. In the old days with a 20min Activate timer? Yeah, was a HUGE problem for the job. Now? Irrelevant if the pet dies, they're totally disposable.


And no no no, an automaton is not just like an avatar. Both are disposable yes, but an avatar is essentially a a club that can stop 2x a min to use a special move. An avatar is like a mini-player i guess, with its on TP and WS phases and its own set of timed abilities that are customizable by which attachments are equipped.


2- The vast majority of PUPs i've seen ingame, flat-out suck. I've maybe seen 4 ingame that were worth a damn. I don't think that's an indictment against the job tho as much as it says something about one type of player that is drawn to a job like PUP. Everyone knows the type; clueless about FFXI in general and have glombed on to X job because 'they' will show everyone how the job is supposed to be played. Will shout down anyone saying anything remotely unflattering X job. You know? That guy you get /t's from for an hour after you stopped listening and end up /blisting?

On track and back to your dmg split assertation, Anza nailed it there too. In fact as lvl-corection starts rearing its ugly head, a properly outfitted automaton can start closing the gap between master and pet dmg. Attuner and Target Marker actually give an automaton a nice boost against mobs where lvl correction is an issue ignoring %'s of mob def and eva respectively.

Like i've said plenty of times to ppl ingame-if you don't like PUP? Fine. Just don't throw out stuff that is inaccurate to justify your dislike. "Just 'cause" is reason enough in my book.

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#43 Apr 09 2012 at 2:12 PM Rating: Excellent
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If PUP was the top DD in the game it would be flat out broken.

PUP is a utility job designed to fill a number of roles. Whether or not it does these roles well isn't the point - the point is that PUP was created specifically to fill a variety of roles, hence the different heads etc.

The top DD in the game should always be an out and out dedicated DD, something like RNG or MNK etc.
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Incidentally, I'm pretty confident that 90% of the dislike of PUP comes from the fact that if you say the word "damage" around a PUP player they launch into a 30-minute spiel about how leet they are and how there was this one party where they outdamaged a DRK and oh my frickin God I don't care.

Just sayin'

I'd just like to break up the giant theses on PUP and why it is/isn't a good DD job with a slow clap for Erecia hitting the nail on the head. I haven't yet met a PUP who didn't seem to have a canned essay loaded into macros ready to fire off at anyone who mentions their damage (good or bad).
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I like the part where PUP is just as good a healer as a DNC. It's funny on so many levels.
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#47 Apr 09 2012 at 8:09 PM Rating: Good
So much wrong in one post...
#48 Apr 09 2012 at 8:24 PM Rating: Good
You know guys, a bard can TOTALLY be one of the top damage dealers.

Totally and seriously. Smiley: nod

Pay no attention to the WAR I use as my DD job, It's just there for pretend. My bard has 5/5 Extentorator and knows how to use it!
#49 Apr 09 2012 at 8:36 PM Rating: Good
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Have to weigh in on the PUP as DD discussion...

PUP is an absolute monster DD for non-zerg situations, and has a unique benefit of splitting damage (rough estimate 60-65% master/35-40% puppet) to aid in hate control if you're using a real tank. The combined damage of master and puppet, accounting for TP and WS from both, DOES beat your average similar quality geared DD. Obviously if we're talking 60-65% of your total damage coming from the master, the master themselves shouldn't be beating a competent and similar quality geared DD job (nor should the puppet beat a true RNG or BLM). But add in that other 35-40% from the puppet, and the good PUP usually wins. Another unique aspect of PUP is effectively hate free nuking, with strong maneuver/attachment-enhanced nukes, then a quick deactivate/re-activate to shed all hate. Huge benefit for fights where the mob is weak to magic and you're trying to have a tank hold hate (and if needed the master can even stay out of AoE range, or use a full strength BLM puppet to keep on DDing while the master itself is weakened).

The skill needed to effectively DD on PUP is also vastly overrated. Auto-attack, WS at 100tp, and add in the oh-so-complex step of deploying your puppet and cycling in some maneuvers (wind/fire/thunder or wind/wind/fire are your basic DD rotations with Sharpshot frame). I agree that only fools sit on 300tp waiting to SC with their pet... but Stringing Pummel or Victory Smite are strong options and can be used right away at 100tp (my MNK is jealous of not having Stringing Pummel). And the puppet will WS at 100tp on its own as well, adding a big chunk of damage (say, Armor Shatterer from the RNG frame, which gives solid damage AND a defense down effect on the mob that helps all DDs attacking that mob).

For pure damage on a controlled fight, PUP is quite simply a beast. Not that it doesn't have its downsides though:
* PUP isn't as good a zerg job as something like MNK or DRK.
* PUP has less tanking ability than something like MNK (counters).
* While the mage frames can compete on raw nuking power, or healing power (effectively unlimited MP to toss Cure VI spam), they can't compete in precise selection. BLMs can use the ideal spell for the situation (including procs), and have some great benefits like sleep and stun that the puppet doesn't get. WHMs can cast faster and use specific buffs/erase specific ailments from party member far better than a puppet.
* PUP is fairly weak in procs across the board (red, blue, yellow) for Abyssea content.

A few of the complaints I've seen are outdated and though they may have been true in the past, are not an issue now:

1) Long ability timers potentially leaving the master puppet-less and gimped are a thing of the past. Deus ex Automata (activate with lowered HP, which can be easily healed with the Repair JA and an Automaton Oil) is on a 1min timer. In the old days with a 20min Activate timer? Yeah, was a HUGE problem for the job. Now? Irrelevant if the pet dies, they're totally disposable.

2) "Difficulty" of playing/gearing PUP... also not really so much the case these days. In the old days PUP had few great options and had to work hard for the limited strong DD options. Now, it's on the normal good light DD pieces just like MNK, NIN, THF, etc. Get an Empy+2 armor set, an Empy or magian weapon (fire claws are great for PUP, and with Stringing Pummel being so good a pair of fire/STR path H2H arguably beat an 85 Verethragna since V.Smite isn't as big of a deal for PUP), some general gear that's the same as other DDs (Rancor Collar, Ocelomeh/Toci, etc), and you're set. No harder to gear than the usual DD. On the puppet side, most vital attachments are cheap, with the one big exception of a Turbo Charger (pet haste). It doesn't take a rocket scientist.

3) AI issues? Never have been a problem for the Sharpshot frame, the primary physical DD puppet. Just deploy the thing near the mob, let it attack, and cycle a basic set of DD-focused maneuvers (generally some combination of wind/fire/thunder). And even for the mage frames, AI issues have been drastically improved - and even before those issues mainly impacted the healer puppet, not DD.

Edited, Apr 9th 2012 2:02pm by Anza


i'll sit here, and wait for a brave soul who tries and disprove what anza just wrote.

I'm also of the same idea that the best PUP versus the best (i'll use SAM because is my other job) SAM, PUP will have a hard time keeping up with him, on a zerg sam will beat the pup hands down. but knowing both jobs perfectly well, the distance between pup and other heavy damage dealers is not as large as some people on this forum seem to believe, and it should be that way, because the other jobs dont have the other tools PUP have, it makes sence that dedicated heavy damage dealers would come up on top of PUP, but PUP is dangerously close. in my honest opinion.
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Is PUP the best DD? No, and Anza does a great job explaining why. However, the problem with PUP isn't its damage, it's a complete misunderstanding of the job itself by many players.

While I'm every job receives its fair share of uninformed comments, I've ran into exponentially more people (and read several posts on various forums) who make declarations and judgements about PUP that are often outdated and occasionally flat out untrue at any point in time. The job has received numerous updates to increase its viability, yet people tend to overlook these things out of laziness with staying informed. I've even ran into people who didn't know the basic mechanics of the job, such as people who thought you could select which spell to cast and when, etc.

There are many times I've been declined a party solely because of my job, without any knowledge of my gear, skill, experience, or other determining factors in selecting members. It's frustrating to play second fiddle to someone with subpar equipment (Pink/Teal sets being a common example) solely because of job selection when a properly equipped PUP can perform many roles adequately, but on the other hand, it's extremely rewarding when I party with someone reluctant to give PUP a chance and end up completely changing their mind on the job. Example: the other night I was in an Apademak 5-man party, and our NIN tank rudely decided to ditch the party with no prior notice after a single fight. We tried to find a replacement to no avail, so I said I would tank. I swapped to /nin sub, and upon coming back, the party was doubtful, with comments such as, "I thought you said you were switching to a tank job?" Although my fellow members were more than skeptical of PUP's capabilites as tank, shortly in the future we were sitting on 5/5 Apademak kills (1 tanked by the NIN and the other 4 by me). I asked the party if I had changed anyone's opinion on PUP, and received nothing but "/"s in response.

tl;dr: PUP is fine. It's not the best damage dealer, but the tools available to the job more than compensate. The problem is with what's seemingly a large portion of the community adhering to the outdated "Laughing Out Loud @ PUP" (damn censor) mentality of five years ago due to:
1. Laziness with keeping informed (on patch notes, changes to the job, new discoveries, etc)
2. Misunderstanding or ignorance of the basic mechanics of the job (i.e., how maneuvers and attachments work, etc)
3. Lack of knowledge regarding the hard data of the job (e.g., some people not realizing PUP has the 2nd best native evasion in the game thanks to Evasion Bonus IV)
4. Doubtfulness regarding the roles the job can perform (e.g., "PUP as main healer/eva tank? Yeah right, I'll see it when I believe it!")
5. The lurking stigma of the job being subpar when it was first released
6. The functions/output of the master and puppet being split (total damage between them being an example already mentioned in this thread)

I apologize if I sounds like one of the PUPs who sends "macro'd essays" about the job at people, but I think that type of reaction shouldn't seem unexpected when so many people are utterly clueless about the job in the first place--many people have flat out told me "I know nothing about PUP." When PUPs explain things about the job, we don't have ill intent and we're not trying to annoy you--we're just trying to clear up the misconceptions about us.

Edited, Apr 10th 2012 12:29am by Pelamir
#51 Apr 10 2012 at 6:46 AM Rating: Decent
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The PUP apologists aren't making the job any more relevant to the intent of the thread. I just made the assumption the puppet was waiting for the master every time because their WS rates always seemed a near match (this may also be because this was single digit counts per fight compared to the tens or twenties of WS of real DD). The Sharpshot's accuracy was horrendous too, like 65-70% even just on the tier 2 Zilart we were doing (this wasn't the KKK PUP btw).

And my AoE reference was mostly because you can't use Fanatics/Fools on a puppet, which is a major sticking point in VWNM.

But I get it. PUP is an average to above average DD... when not in a zerg situation... or on particularly hard targets... and when properly configured... on windsday... with a RDM... and none of the other DDs are getting haste or marches or are even above decent. I think I covered most of what was said.

That's a lot of 'ifs' and work to be average. Enough effort to put any other DD into such a top tier to make said PUP look pathetic. Please stop this tirade.

If I were to list the jobs not eligible for this thread, I would likely list PUP first, even after considering BST, DNC, maybe THF and NIN, and all before even getting into the vagueness of melee vs. ranged vs. magic DDs or negotiating inside or outside of Abyssea.

I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that PUP is never the top DD in any situation. PUP does a lot of things pretty good, but bringing it up in a 'Best DD' thread was stupid from the beginning.

Edited, Apr 10th 2012 5:55am by Raelix
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