BST + New Pets Much Stronger!!

[Psion]

You'd be a pretty sad bst if you couldn't position a pet onto a the front of a mob properly, methinks. <_<; And while it sucks for your NN, I doubt a tank or whm will be complaining about a disposable pet soaking up some damage for the tank/melee. I could see some difficulties of bst against the flying wyrm types though, but that's an issue all melee gotta deal with. As for meteor, there is a little thing called Leave. If for some reason your pet pulls hate and there's a meteor inc, and it cant get away in time, just dismiss it. Voila, meteor fails in midcast, so it's as if you stunned it, and everyone is happy. Well, maybe not the bst since you might have to wait on call beast timer, but it's a small price to pay. Unless you got a bunch of pets and no tank though, it's unlikely your jugpet will pull hate in less than 5 minutes anyways though. Unless your tank reaaaally sucks.

[Chimerawizard]

I was mainly refering to the flying wyrms yes. In many cases I can have my pet with more hate than a pld in 3 or 4 minutes even if I don't snarl at some point. I would probably miss the call of meteor on my pet getting people killed.

[Psion]

K, first off. Get a better pld. I know NN is a powerful DD, but come on, A pld shouldn't be failing that hardcore.

Second, if you have difficulties telling who has hate, then there's a simple macro that assists with that, the /assist macro!
Line one: /as <t> (where <t> will be whatever monster you want to know who is on top of hate list of)
line two: /wait 1
/line three: <t> has hate! (Or whatever you want to say if at all, you could just have line one if you want only to know who has hate for yourself. Whenever you target a monster and hit this macro, it will change the target to the person on top of hate list for that monster, including pets. This way, when you see meteor being cast, all you need to do is target KB, hit the macro, and if you see your pet as the target, Leave it and laugh as the poor purple people eater stares in confusion over its lost target.

Still though, is it normal for a tank to lose hate to pet on wyrms within a few minutes? I know there's something about horrid roar that sucks for tanks, but unless it's hate reset and you only got one tank, I don't see how it would be that much of an issue. Even if so, as long as you don't do something crazy like sending your pet behind a wyrm when it's on the ground, I don't see why you should care whether it manages to pull hate since wyrms don't like turning on the ground.

Do wyrms use spike flail if the target is to the side of them, or only behind? If only behind, you could just deploy on the frontish/side of the wyrm opposite of the mages to avoid them eating runaway breath attacks. :s

[Darkmagi]

Anywhere not in the front.

[Guitarman]

pet food zeta got a HUUUUGE upgrade: usual is 386 hp recovered, no gear on, one just did 987 with no gear on... HOLY CRAP

[Absolutely Virtue]

Wow, holy shit. Gear for Reward is % based (or was, anyway). If base is 987, basic gear is going to add hundreds of HP to that.

[Guitarman]

Wow, holy shit. Gear for Reward is % based (or was, anyway). If base is 987, basic gear is going to add hundreds of HP to that.

fellow bst i talked to got 1398 recovered in his gearset. and that's not including of course, the regen effect the pet gets. this is incredible.

[Cesaria]

Just had a 1370 reward in my reward gear (which isn't the greatest - missing pallas shield and something else I forget I wanted) - nuts.

[Xoraken]

just did 1693 hp with MND74+71 ( reward set with Ogres gloves+1,Stout bonnet,Af²+1 feet,Zoraal Axe+ pallas shield)
and did 1716 hp with MND74+79 ( replace Stout by Af+1 head )

did this in Abyssea Attowha with all attribue + Food MND+10 + Reward gears

[Nattack]

thats hot.. goddamn.

i havent even been able to experience ready yet D:

[Guitarman]

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Fatso_Fargann

in case anyone is wondering, fatso is confirmed a leech. Don't know how i feel about this.

[Plow]

lol @ 3 charges for tp drainkiss

leech will be extremely useful for pet groups I would think, should be able to stand up a lot better than sheep

[Guitarman]

stun and drain will be nice. the real winner is acid mist. that shit is potent. I really, REALLY wanted a slime, but i guess this'll work. at least they're expanding on the different pet families available finally.

[Psion]

Look at it this way. You don't get a pet with excellent physical damage taken down, but increased magic damage taken. You get an evasive little pet that can regen itself and lower the monsters attack so far down that it might as well be a slime pet. (if it's anything as bad as vs players. <.<; )

And without the magic damage taken increase!


::edit:: and fook the evil smileys, i hate how they mistake parentheses and the like for smileys instead of proper punctuation. ;.; )

[Baelorn]

Just disable them in your posts

[Psion]

:: Psion's posting skill has evolved to new heights! ::

[Karbuncle]

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Fatso_Fargann

in case anyone is wondering, fatso is confirmed a leech. Don't know how i feel about this.

AHAHAH YES, I KNEEEEWWWW IITTT

Fuck you Diremite people!

http://dublinopinion.com/wp-content/...the-batter.JPG.

On to Topic. I welcome this pet, With the Introduction to Colibri and other bIrds to go on top of the Flamingo's and Bats of the old Abyssea Zones, I am happy to finally have a pet (And a damn good one) That rivals the bird family.

[vagus]

If the TP Drainkiss is powerful, i'll jizz. This pet sounds amazing either way. A great rival to sheep for DDing.

[Elesar]

Now all we need is a pet from the bird family and we can finally make full use of our Killer Instinct merits!

[Tsuko_Asura]

If the TP Drainkiss is powerful, i'll jizz. This pet sounds amazing either way. A great rival to sheep for DDing.

Humor me, I know shit about BST- why would you want to waste Ready on TP Drainkiss?