Historical FF w/ Puppet MasterFollow

A lot of people may be asking themselves right now, what's the historical context for the new puppermaster class. Well, let's take a few guesses. My guess, and I'll state this isn't a fact, remember Golbez from FF IV? Puppet Master imo, remember fighting his summoned puppets in the underworld? That's my guess, have fun with it.

Edit: Please read this before you think "OMG ANOTHER PUPPETMASTER THREAD!!1!," it's about discussing the influences so people dont think SE pulled this job out of their A$$, not flaming the boards with more puppetmaster threads. Anyhow, any FF experts, post away :)

Edited, Fri Mar 10 23:57:09 2006 by galkaBST

Actually, I believe those puppets were controlled by someone else in FFIV

as for Cait Sith and Lulu... You couldn't really call either the precedent for the Puppetmaster job. Cait Sith was, if anything, a gambler (Corsair) and used the stuffed mog for transportation, and attacking physically. Lulu, would be an even worse example. She is a black mage all the way, and again the dolls were her weapons (possibly because Yuna already used a staff, and they wanted something different for Lulu) and were only used for attacking, which Lulu never should be doing in the first place.

If anything, I can see pupptet master turning out to be just a classic job with a makeover, like gambler/corsair. Is it possible that the puppets can be used to mimic the actions of your party members? Also, is it just me, or does the artifact armot look strangely Dancer-ish?

Just throwing ideas out there...

A very interesting idea. I remembered fighting Golbez, he runs away, then you fight puppets ^^; It's been awhile lol. I really like the puppet mimic idea too. Maybe it's a magish job that can use the puppet to open SC's, if it does physical attacks like avatars? We'll have to wait and see I guess, in any case, I'm glad to see an interesting new job ^^

Also a possibilty. Every time a Final Fantasy uses the job system, at least one new job is introduced to the series. Final Fantasy XI is so far the only one to not have any original job.

Uh, no. He is a puppet, controlled remotely by a Shin-Ra exec. Which is why he doesn't die in the Temple of the Ancients.

Don't forget the Mime job in FFV.

I agree though, I can see this as being FFXI's version of the mime job. After all what fun would it be to play a job with only one ability (mime)? This way it's the puppet that mimes, leaving the puppet *master* to do other stuff. I still think the AF armor looks like a dancer though, is it possible that in addition to summoning the puppet, the puppet master also has debuffinf abilites?

While Cait Sith physically was in fact a puppet, his role as a party member was a gambler by trade. So in a sense, both are right.

I'm intrigued about the Puppet Master, which the irony is they chose to announce this after revealling the true nature of the Blue Mage and the Corsair. Meaning we have to wait to find out about a job class we can only speculate on moreso than the lottery pirate.

Personally, I think the puppet could assume various roles. Perhaps a "dummy" puppet, one that the PM could send in to absorb the hate off a mob. A puppet for each elemental property, one assigned specifically to use certain elemental based attacks against the mob.

Definitely an interesting route to take. Beastmasters, don't feel threatened. But I'll give you this: my puppet can own your Hare Familiar! Woogy boogy!

This is SE's response to Necromancer i'm sure.

The puppet actually reminds me a Vivi in a way, you know how he was a puppet and all? Similar design between them(or was he i dont really remember,but those other mages were)

I believe the first appearance of Puppet Master, is FFII(US) though it could be III), any way its always been a MOB, Puppeteer with sub mobs Puppet they were way easy to beat except the puppet would some times cast some sort of voodoo wich always made life difficult.

Good lord man, they're only called II and III if you're living in 1994-land; Try IV, and VI.

but yes, as far as I can remember FFIV was the first to use a puppet type enemy.

First of all, I just wanna say that Lulu + Auron's Path = Puppetmaster. Those dolls could kick serious *** if you really wanted them to. (Even if it did make her overdrive useless...)

Second, I can't believe nobody's said this yet... The first puppetmaster was Jenova. It wasn't playable.. but a Puppet master none-the-less.

Puppetmaster........

You gotta be ******* kidding me... So many cool classes in FF that haven't been used and they bring out this.

So help the furies of the gods if you say Necromancer....