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Puppetmaster

Submitted by Tamara on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 19:25.

The Puppetmaster job appears to not yet be complete (I hear the AF Quests don't yet exist) however one aspect which was implemented is you can acquire parts - a new head and a new frame - for your puppet when you reach level 10 and when you reach level 20 and (I think) level 30.

You go to Ghatsad while in your Puppetmaster level 10+ job and get a cutscene. Ghatsad just wants to talk about frames, but the frame option comes with a 'free' head he tosses in! (Also the nude Galka fanboy will probably not still be hanging around Ghatsad's shop by the time of your visit! LOL!)

These puppet upgrades were extremely pricey at expansion first weekend, however Darkkit pointed out to me the Stormwaker Mage Upgrade has now dropped to around 180,000 gil (plus the three Imperial Silver). I purchased my Stormwaker Mage upgrade for 182,000 gil.

Thank-you Darkkit!

As to which frame you should purchase - if anyone is happy with their Valoredge acting as a tank I have yet to run across their post. I am not saying no one has gotten the tank puppet to work, I am just saying if it is out there working out okay no one has yet posted to where I have run across it.

Tanks can take a lot of damage in parties on a bad pull and the only 'healing' available for the Valoredge frame is the Automation Oil and apparently it is not enough to keep up. So the rumors say.

Puppetmaster is still a work-in-progress but folks are writing that PUP/WARR and Stormwaker Mage is okay. Not a high-experience-points yielding experience but okay. Others like their Ranger Puppet.

No one knows how PUP will fit into a party at high-end because the AF does not exist yet. Also some of the negative things you read about PUP relate to skills - it is reported the frame levels and skills on its own, so if you rush the PUP job the skills of a given frame fall behind. Sort of like rushing the Summoner job as a SMN/WHM healer - Summoning Magic falls behind and the Avatars turn out weak.

So lots of rumors and little hard info. I think we need to give SE six months to understand what they have created and set loose upon the world! LOL!

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ON PUP TANKING

Submitted by Milotheshort on Mon, 05/15/2006 - 23:10.

The common practice now is to use the Mage body and dismiss your puppet before it takes dmg, a glitch restores its mp to full and it will cure you... rinse and repeat.

The reson the puppets so far aren't tanking well with the melee bodies is the attachments. You need the Armor plating, flashbulb, as well as some others to try and pull this off. Also buying higher quality oil's might improve this ability. just gotta think like a pld for setting up your puppet. There is an Auto repair kit to which provides a regan effect. This might stack with the oils.