PUP seems to need tweaking to be effective enough compared to the jobs available to do damage. Even with the current pet damage calculated with the actual H2H from the player it isn't really viable end game either in xp or on HNM. The job equipment available isn't quite good enough end game and the WS selection even though improved, the job would never produce WS numbers viable enough to warrant a spot in end game SC setups on HNM. The automaton is good DD but really not good enough and as it stands I doubt it would be great on HNM even with the upgrades vs higher level monsters. That all is from reading about the job though as I have never played with one on an actual HNM/God/etc.

Don't overrate the actual DL battle lol... if you have enough good CS stunners and enough damage to kill him in time you should win almost all of the time barring just plain bad luck. You sure as hell don't need more than 40 to take DL down.. probably can get by with 30 or less actually if you had optimum equipment. With the newest AV killing on Fairy server it is evident just like when we killed DL that DRK with Kraken is the win lol. The COR exploit restoring 2hr with a level 1 job is pretty broken when it gives the 2hr to a 75 job.

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Eternus Ifrit Server Atariii LS member
75 BRD with a bunch of subjobs

Pup gear selection is ridiculous. Wtf use do they have for the Errant set? They were given dragon kick but it's pointless since they don't have access to much dd gear, if any. I hear the rng frame is good, but I don't really know what that means, nor do I care, but we'll all play pup when the Alexander frame comes out haha.

Kraken drk is cool, however, mnk/drk with a chainspell cure4 slave is pretty good too. Like I said though, Dragoons held the key to "having enough damage" <.< Even a fight based on luck (or with a monster who can at any point in time choose to kill you, such as dl) can have a plan beyond zerg(or in this case, to assist the zerg). There are things you can do in almost any fight to decrease the luck factor, whether directly or indirectly.

Kinda like blm maat, luck is a factor, but you don't need to depend on it to win and you can avoid being defeated by it with some thought.

what's the alexander frame?