Puppet Wish ListFollow

For the sake of puppetmaster's everywhere, I thought we could start a wish list thread. Not necessarily for the upcoming February/March Updates, but just more in general. Feel free to chime in with realistic wants and I will add them to the first post as I get time.

Master abilities
Stout Servant II

More Martial Arts

Ability to force a nuke/cure out of combat.

Level 99 tier of resist slow/amnesia = Immune to these effects

Overdrive: Seems very lack luster now a days. In fact in abyssea I feel overdrive is = where the pet should be all the time.


Gear/Items
New Animator: Id like to see +100 hp/mp, 25% fast cast and 10% haste for the automaton

Repair oils stack to 99

Repair oil 3

Non-hp related oils: Mp, haste, buffs, etc Give oils more utility



Automaton related
last light/dark attachment: Numerous ways this can go. Read the last thread and cant find a single best idea for either.

the ability to save attachment / head/frame sets: (Deactivate, macro1(whm frame +attachments), activate!

pets mp to be visible below their hp bar

improved AI

New head/frame: Possibly a buff oriented one

New ws: VE and SS both need a crit ws

Ability to set which WS it can use (only make Canibal blade allowable)

Ability to set the distance: EG /pet stayback stays at max range /pet melee sends pet into melee range

Pet gear that doesnt cripple the master. No one should have to choose from 5% self haste or 5% pet haste

Seperate spell timers for each casting group (eg enhancing, healing, elemental, dark)

Ability to rest independently of pet, or have pet rest on its own

For defensive pet attachments to be more useful, and for the automaton's base defense to be raised a decent amount.

For Valoredge to be turned into a viable tank, with a visible-to-all health gauge, better hate-keeping tools pre-ventriloquism, and for it to be able to be healed by all

Level 99 Group 3 merits
Abilities:
Share buffs/gear: 3 minute duration 5 minute reuse. Any MAB, Haste, ACC, ATK on the masters gear will benefit the pet too.

Share maneuvers: 3 minute duration 5 minute reuse. Manuevers will benefit the master. 1 wind maneuver would add the +stat as well as any attachment based benefits such as haste, evasion, ranged acc etc.

Traits
Tactical Switch: Reduces the timer by 20s per rank (80s reuse instead of 180)

Deus Ex Automata: Each rank increases the starting hp/mp by 5% (max 25%)

Extended Maneuvers: Each rank increases the duration of manuevers by 15 seconds (max 2:15, for a total of 3:15

Reduced overload: Each rank is equivalent to adding 1 more peace of gear with this effect.

Edited, Feb 1st 2011 10:58am by dustinfoley

Edited, Feb 2nd 2011 4:24pm by dustinfoley

This is how it should have been from the start.

Dark Magic, Elemental Magic, and Enfeebling Magic, and -na spells should also all be on separate timers.

While we're at it:
~I'd like to be able to choose my pet's WS's without tossing up useless maneuvers
~To have more control over the pet's actions
~To have a buff-oriented frame (Protect/Shellra V, haste, Cure spells up to Cure V, etc.. all on separate timers)
~I'd like to have a visible Overload gauge
~<petmpp> (This will be included next patch)
~For defensive pet attachments to be more useful, and for the automaton's base defense to be raised a decent amount.
~For Valoredge to be turned into a viable tank, with a visible-to-all health gauge, better hate-keeping tools pre-ventriloquism, and for it to be able to be healed by all.
~I'd like maneuvers to either last longer or for them to remove the 10 second recast, and a reduction of the animation time for maneuvers to be applied.
~I'd like the last two attachments.
~I'd like the Tactical Processor's functionality to be revealed.
~To be able to choose the range my Automaton stands from an enemy, up to 21 yalms
~To be able to choose when my Automaton rests, and for it to not automatically rest when I do.
~For Automaton Oils to have their price reduced and stack to 99
~I'd like my Automaton to not die whenever I mount a chocobo
~More applicable damage-dealing gear at lower levels. Nothing too spectacular, but we shouldn't have to DD in EVA gear until 60.

THF or MNK frame would be boss.

Dual wield, fast attacks (less hp / def then VE). The only issue i see with THF frame is people whining that we get th3 or something via pet! Seriouslly, an actual melee pet that does more then 1 hit per 4 seconds would be nice. Innate double or tripple attack for giggles.

THF frame:
Despoil, Sneak Attack, innate tripple, dual wield, fast delay medium to low dmg

Mnk frame:
Focus, Impetus, Perfect counter, innate double attack (and dual wield since its h2h, with pets delay being = masters martial arts)

I'd kinda like to see the triumphant return of Harlequin. Maybe turn it into the "MNK" frame people are discussing here - give it innate double/triple attack, regain, a good frame-exclusive crit WS. Ditch the spellcasting abilities for all I care, or maybe refine them. Cure 1 through 4 or 5 (only triggered with a light maneuver active, and still self/master target only) and give it the ability cast haste on itself and the master. Maybe give Harle a different scale/progression of maneuver/stat benefits too (e.g. where a fire maneuver would give STR+3 to another frame, Harle gets +4).

I'd also like some tweaks to SS, since VE/Harle would be the melee DDs. Maybe turn SS into a true ranger, increasing rate/effectiveness of ranged attacks and possibly altering melee ability downward (maybe have it stay at range when deployed, and if deployed in melee range it would move back to archery sweet spot instead). Kinda mirroring the change from old school melee RNG before the old "RNG nerf", to strongly encouraging actual ranged RNGs.

VE = can be the tank frame or sturdier DoT, slashing damage
Harle = offensive DoT, blunt damage
SS = ranged, piercing damage
Soulsoother = WHM, party healing
Spiritreaver = BLM, magic damage
Stormwaker = give it high level RDM spells. Para/Slow II, Dia/Bio III, Addle, tier IV nukes.


Edited, Feb 1st 2011 4:09pm by Anza

I lol'd

I would like an ability to control 2 puppets at the same time in exchange with the master not being able to engage in battle and having only 1 of each attachments to share between both pets, like, can't use 2 attuner on both pets...
VE pet and Soulsmoother pet, a mini party
Sharpshot and Spirit pet being able to cure the Sharpshot pet and support on debuffing and nuking.
VE pet and Stormwaker for (Full Attack!) or basically any 2 pet/head/body combinations.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2011 6:35am by Nyariko

4 puppets is CLEARLY less ridiculous. And yes, I too would love SE forever if they gave us the option to merit tactical switch.

lol that is sarcasm. And I agree with Anza. This 2 puppet business is ridiculous enough to almost lose my interest in this thread.

New dark attachment
New moon: dark maneuver ws's always prioritized

New light attachment
Full moon: light manuver attachments always active

I've wanted a dark arts/light arts style elemental priority kind of thing for a while now. Would make things so much easier for everyone that plays the job.

sorry but that is just silly. Adding attachments to fix stupid AI isn't the answer. The answer is to fix the stupid A.I.

Just give us control of the puppet, seperate timers on cures/na-enfeebles and nukes/aspir etc.

Get the 23 sec timer on both or whatever it is and let us choose what cure to use, what nuke to use etc, that way we can be of more value in abyessa.

there was a question answered in their last QandA session they are looking at some jobs in abyssea when talking about triggers. Hopefully they get axe and h2h into the mix for triggering red.

that is the way I see it. The fact these new guys actually clued into something small like petmp after all these years, tells me they are actually paying attention to the problems and fix the stupid mistakes the initials guys did and not ignore it anymore like the last group.

the puppet rug must be full, they can't sweep anymore problems under it.

Well they'd have to give us an elemental WS for starters. What is the highest current red proc ws being used in terms of skill level? Most seem to be around the 100-150 mark from what I can recall off the top of my head.

I was refering to the rest of the sentence. feedback regarding other ws, magic spells and JOBS. It is reaching, but obviously there were complaints about the usefulness of some jobs in abyessa.

Well yes, but my point was that we need a h2h elemental weaponskill first in order to even qualify for a red proc ws. If that means getting a new weaponskill it'll most likely be at a stupidly high skill level and won't fit in with any of the others, unless they midify an existing one.

Either way, it looks unlikely they'll change anything to do with the weakness system now that all three are out.

new light attachment
Light Scatterer: Automaton will now heal pets, avatars, npcs, and automatons

new dark attachment
Black Hole: Automaton will now receive AoE heals and samba effects.