User blog comment:Spinfx/Loot plz kthx/@comment-24646286-20140404185022/@comment-24646286-20140405091407

I agree with pretty much everything you said. The Aquisitor inclination on pawns however is twofold. Its good in places and terrible in others. For example, in BBI it can be useful. Some if not most enemies we kill turn into piles of mush and their drops get obscured. I for one won't even pick up the Venomous Cuspid dropped from the 12th Warg I've killed that hour but I'm always on the lookout for RC, flakes, specks, chunks doesn't matter its every drop of rain that makes an ocean. So I wouldn't mind if the pawns lapped it all up and left it to me to discard or sell anything useless.

Conversely on Gransys Secondary or Tertiary Aquisitors will just disperse away to pick up or gather anything lying around. I don't even know what they've picked up sometimes because I don't bother with that outside of BBI. And since I don't know, I won't even find out after I released them since that stuff is gone to my storage. When I check my storage and find Rocks and Warbugles and Small and Large NUTS and all sorts of useless shit lying around I get so pissed it makes me wanna slam my head against the wall!!! I don't even sell that crap with a 4x Suasion I just throw it away.

So honestly I'd rather not have any Aquisitors up in my business. I'll hover around those piles of mush myself till I see that blue beam of light indicating a drop and then choose if I want it or not. And yeah thats my only work around while farming chests. I don't want a Lordly Tonic from a chest when I can get a BB Armor lv. 3 from it -_- Damn Aquisitors.

Thank goodness I'm not the only one whose Utili pawn won't aid him lolol. In post-game Gran Soren when I need to dupe items, I'll rest at the camp area at the end of the field rather than at the Pawn Guild. Spending 100G rather than 500 per day is better as I spend the same for just one day at the Guild yet can end up duping 5 items instead of 1. So I use Cutting Wind + Instant Reset to dash towards Monte, as soon as I reach the large gate above the slope I'm out of breath (only lv.81 there so...) I'll see my pawn running aaaalllll the waaaaay to me and then run right freakin past me!! As if he can't see his master hunched over and out of breath. He didn't used to do that as a Guardian in the initial stages! bad! BAD AI.

Speaking of Guardians that brings me to support centric inclinations, I believe multiple are present because of the degree of their need. I personally thought it would be better if my Sorc MP on my main A/C be a Guardian so she sticks close to me while I myself play Sorc, and still stay close when I eventually change to MA. But what's good for me isn't good for anybody else and it reflected in her lack of being rented till level 72! Then I changed to Utilitarian/Mitigator/Challenger and suddenly had multiple rents. Twice from the same person not even on my friends list. Guardian pawns for me sucked like hell too. Doing battles with Online-UR the two pawns I hired, a Ranger and a Strider, had great gear and enchanted weapons so I could buff them with Holy.....but they both had Guardian as Pri or Sec and would barely attack the Ur unless I stood there charging a spell. As a Sorc its more of running around charging HFB then jump releasing, those idiots would just follow me around getting smacked in the face all the time, its like I had to do everything. Kicked those two out of my team and hired two more Sorcs WITHOUT Guardian who I could group cast Grand Bolide with. I shit you not I could make out that I decreased the Online-Urs health bar by atleast 1/30!