Available after completing the No Strings Attached quest, these wandering performers entertain crowds and confound their enemies with a customizable puppet known as an "automaton." This puppet uses different frames, maneuvers and attachments to do a variety of different tasks. Puppetmasters (PUP) can also fall back on Hand-to-Hand fighting skills that utilize the flexible movements of their art.
Each time you level up Puppetmaster, ensure you Deactivate and Activate your Automaton so its new level stats will take effect.
If you Deactivate your Automaton while it has full HP, you can Activate your Automaton without waiting. It is useful when you are using a mage-type Automaton and it is running out of MP.
Each time when you enter an area or battlefield with an imposed Level Restriction or Confrontation status, ensure that you Deactivate before you proceed. Otherwise your Automaton will be forced to Deactivate on its own and will not reset the Activation timer even if your Automaton has full HP.
You must have Automaton Attachments equipped for your Automaton to receive the effects of the attachments when using elemental maneuvers corresponding to the elements of the attachments. However, you still receive slight temporary stat increases for a particular stat of the elemental maneuver if no corresponding attachment is equipped.
Automatons with the Soulsoother Head have the ability to cast beneficial spells on all members of the Puppetmaster's party. (The automaton and master will always have priority over other members.)
In Salvage all pet's stats are locked with the master's. This means if your HP is locked, for example, your pet's HP is locked as well. Using a cell to remove a lock also removes the lock from the pet. This includes all cells- For PUP, the Automaton will not be able to cast spells if your magic is locked. (However, the Automaton needs no equipment to shoot and a ranged cell is not needed for ranged attacks.)
If you log-off with your Automaton activated, it will appear next to you the next time you log-in.
Note:Automaton skills can be raised even when Puppetmaster is selected as a subjob., but will be limited to the level of the subjob as with other sub-skills.