I figured I would post here instead of KI to avoid some of the idiots that lurk the PUP forum there. Also, this thread is about Puppetmaster as the titles indicates, so I'm sure only a select number of people who read these forums will even care. Please don't flame about how PUP sucks, I'm well aware that it isn't the best job in the world. My PUP has been semi-retired for quite some time now as a result of this. I'm 75 NIN and 75 SMN, both well equipped and with a variety of subjobs, and I leveled PUP more for fun than anything.

Last night I was messing around on my 64 PUP and I decided to start an XP party in order to try something. I went to party as 64PUP/32DRK with a full stormwalker pet, fighting Eruca in Mount Zhayolm. Although Double Attack from /WAR was missed, I did not notice a huge difference in damage from missing Berserk due to the Attack Bonus job traits from /DRK, with Last Resort acting like a Warcry to increase WS damage.

The big thing that really shocked me about /DRK was the damage I did while Souleater was up. I'm a Galka so I have a high HP pool, which of course results in more damage from Souleater. But the big kicker was that while I had Souleater up, my Automaton would CureIV spam me so that I could leave Souleater up for the entire duration without requiring a single cure from the healers in my party. Whereas most melee, including DRK, become massive MP sinks if they use Souleater for the full duration, my PUP did not in this situation. I partied with a very good Ninja so I only died once from a poorly timed Incinerate when I had hate.

I was just curious.. have any other Puppetmasters tried this? I'm NOT trying to say "ZOMG PUP/DRK BEST THING EVER" or that it instantly should overtake /WAR as the subjob of choice (I'd take /WAR and Sharpshot over this on mobs weak to piercing anyday). I was just wondering if anyone else had tried something similar and could share their experience.