What would you like to see for your job: Pup Edition!Follow

Since the job forums have been pretty inactive for awhile, I thought I'd start a new topic in each devoted to things you'd like or wish that Square Enix would do with each job. They can be legitimate things you'd like to see, or they could be absurd, and, while they can be, they don't have to be any serious or groundbreaking changes you think each job needs, just something you think would improve them a bit in some form. Just try to keep the topic clean and drama free (emphasis on try). Just have some fun with this and let your ideas soar.

Equipment for your automaton you can equip to it to improve its stats and capabilities. Do you have it in a primarily ranged mode? Put on some pieces that improved Ranged Attack and Accuracy. Have it in nuking mode? Throw on some Int/MAB gear. I know predominantly that's what the maneuvers are for, but something to add further customization and improved performance can't hurt in my opinion.

I'd love to see any part of my suggestions outlined in this thread (Link: Official Forums) become a reality.

I'd love to see levels 60, 70, 80, and 90 see some kind of upgrade for each Frame, similar to us getting them @10/20/30/40/50.
For example: Harlequin loses the ability to do magic in exchange for enhanced melee stats.

Maybe a 15th and 16th slot on the Automaton's equipment screen for 2 special attachments, which would only be equippable by certain frames. Valoredge could get a new blade / shield, or dual wield. Sharpshot could get augmented ammo. It would still have unlimited base ammo, but use consumables to change the arrow to Damage up or an EnEffect like standard crossbow bolts.

And then for the Master, gear needs to stop following 2 rules.
1) Stop putting us on Mage gear
2) Stop making MNK/SAM/NIN/PUP series gear a complete bitch to acquire

Edited, Sep 30th 2012 12:12pm by AeriaAllslove

Just throwing out a lot of half-baked things that are coming to mind. Some may work, some may not.

A way to increase elemental capacity could open up new attatchment combination possibilities. They keep adding interesting new attatchments, but its starting to feel really limiting because we can only attatch so few.

Double Maneuver duration and half maneuver recast.

Attatchment that have multiple element types, and can have varying effects depending on which element maneuver is being used. Like a Spikes attatchment that gives different element spikes depending on your maneuvers. Or an Eraser-like attatchment that can remove debuffs of the corresponding element to what maneuvers are active. Or a "Stance" type attatchment that can flip-flop between offensive and defensive. Or even different synergistic effects.

More attatchments like Optic Fiber that interact with other attatchments and can have varied effects.

Basically I think they should play up the maneuver aspect of the job. Right now we have a specific set of attatchments so we throw up our maneuvers and let them just go to town. It would be nice if they gave us reasons to change up maneuvers more often, and incentives to make our performance more powerful to match the increased attention and micro-managing (and JA delay) it would require. It would be great if we could actually power up Auto WS by having the recast short enough to get ready for it

Killer effect type attatchments to allow us to further specialize according to our prey.

Aura-type attatchments with both buffs and debuffs.

More fun "puzzle" type fights like Ob. Or even fights where per-hit damage is capped, so the more fists swinging will be stronger in the long run than big super-powered hits.

Two things that come to mind for me are new emotes for pet only. I think that would be a nice add on to have your automaton do some new things where you the player do not have to do the motion yourself.

The other thing is a treasure hunter or sort of 'thieving' attachment for your automaton. Not necessarily saying make a thief frame or TH attachment but something neat that might correspond with your pet would be interesting.

I would like to be able to customize how my auto looks. I dont want the looks to change any of the stats, just how it looks. VE would still use sword and shield and SS would still use its crossbow. Also, dont make this a 1 time set so that you are locked into it. Allow us to customize our auto whenever we want.

If I could make my auto not look like every other auto out there, that would make me happier.

This was a thing? I never knew that, is there more information out there?

Toci's may not be mage gear but Heka's clearly is. There are still a number of pieces that are appearing as mage centered gear. In addition why couldn't pup just get added to Atheling cause you know Bard and Redmage are more DD oriented than Puppetmaster is.


This, this, and this beg to differ... Not saying we haven't gotten pretty good gear lately, but there are still some gear selections that purposely exclude us from the DD group in favor of placing us unusually on mage only gear like this.

Edited, Oct 5th 2012 9:13am by Clancaln

I'm gonna have to agree with the opinion that PUPs really don't need to complain about lack of DD gear in this day and age. Despite some exceptions, like being on a mage set like Chelona, or being excluded on Atheling (but that's really because in a bit of nostalgia they just used the same jobs from the old DD backpieces like Amemet/Cerberus/Forager's, recalling a day when PUP really WAS excluded), "we don't get DD gear" is really not a very legit complaint in the post WotG era.

PUP has been on most of the light DD or martial arts sets ever since... late ToAU era? Pahluwan, Enkidu, Usukane, Cobra, Thaumas, Athos, Toci/Ocelomeh, etc. Great Empyrean set. Great accessories (Epona's, Twilight Belt, Agasaya/Cirque/Rancor necks).

Focusing on the few exceptions like Atheling misses the point that we really don't have it hard these days. And it's not like 75cap where the gap between Amemet+1 and Bellicose Mantle was pretty major. Now we're talking about the much closer difference between Atheling and Pantin or Vellaunus (in many cases I'd go with Pantin anyway).