Just found the gaelikitten minion and immediately summoned it and took a break to get water and came back to find it perched on my shoulder this game is 10/10
/poke the bucket, do it now
I logged in just to check this lol
It makes the fish jump! That is delightful :D
Okay hear me out; There is a goldfish in the bucket, you can see it, and he CAN jump out. BUT sometimes I swear to the Gods I see something GREEN jump out, like a frog! THERE IS NO FROG IN THE BUCKET!?!
Become a lalafell so it sits on your head.
Planning on swapping from miqote to lala when we get the free fantasia, even more excited now with my favorite pet going to sit on my head now
Very cool catgirlfourskin 👍
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My mind is in the gutter about the comment but your username...confirms it?
Oh is Dawntrail coming with a free fantasia?
Yep! Only reason I haven’t bought one yet is I’m waiting for 7.0 to drop, can’t come soon enough
wait till you find the ferret. also some minions have hidden interactions you can trigger with emote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2r6gt6/minion_interaction_thread/
I am sad at the lack of Capybara options.
Always worth reminding, if you have the Mammeteer title on, you can do /handover on Wind-Up minions and they'll eat out of your hand as if they're alive
It's Shoebill for me. I love that he looks judgemental and also like he doesn't give af
Amaro Hatchling for me! My headcannom is that it's Seto's little one that I'm taking on adventures and teaching how to be a companion.
Working toward that cutie right now! So. Many. Fates.
And when you get the mount, you can pretend it’s all grown up now!
PRAISE BE TO THE GREAT SERPENT OF RONKA!
scree!
Scree!
Scree!
You can just emote /beckon at certain minions and they will come and perch on your shoulder/head.
RedPanda is my favorite perching friend! I wish the pomeranian perched because he's the only one I have out now since my irl doggy is a pom
Strictly speaking I don't have one favorite, but I have a small list I tend to rotate between.
- Posher Otter, an otter in a tophat and vest
- Weatherproof Gaelicat, which is similar to the Gaelikitten minion but looks like it's wearing a winter coat
- Bantam Train
- Kuromaru, the Ninja Dog
- Lesser Panda, which is literally a red panda
- Starbird
- Caduceus
- Great Serpent of Ronka and its variants
Omg I love the posher otter 😍
Fat cat is my favorite, despite being popular.
It made me start fishing so I could get a fishing retainer to go get it way back in the patch it was added. And that started my fishing addiction in game lol. But he usually keeps me company when I work on the annoying fish.
I saw one in game (2 months new) and immediately looked up how to get it. I just so happen to love mmo fishing so it gives me even more reason to level the job.
It's definitely RNG wether the retainer brings it to you, but man when it finally did that was a great feeling :D
Good luck with your fishing journey!
But its sooo cheap on the market now :(
For me, it’s either Starbird for its implication in MSQ or the Anima from the HW relic quest.
For me it's Starbird or Vivi for the same reason
I also like the OMG because of its implication for the omega side quest
Major-General (because I fucking love sharks)
Copycat Bulb (FEED ME SEYMOUR)
My favorite is the wolf puppy. He attacks my enemies with me, or at least he tries to. The day I noticed it, I fell in love with him.
Love me my Puff of Darkness. Went to get some water and found it on top of my head. Adorable
Nagxian Cat (EW Sack of Nuts vendor) is my go to essentially the whole expansion. Reverse the black/white (keep tail as grey/black though) on it and reminds me of my old cat which is why I think I like having it around. https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Nagxian_Cat
Welcome to Gaelikitten gang. I have mine out all the time because it looks like my late cat. :')
I'm one of those Spriggan obsessed Viera. the minion, the outfit, the mount, and the wallpaper! lmfao I adore the Spriggan minion so much I keep swapping right back after I realize I've been 'trying' a new minion out for too long lmfao
Spriggan is my go to when goldsmitthing
Spriggans are the best! Also my go-to minion (and mount) 99% of the time, and I also adore the wedding gift box variant. Wish we had a Ziggy version as a mount+minion too...
I love my Wind-up Lyna. She was an incredible character in SHB that I feel bad she is essentially forgotten now. So in my own way, taking the Lyna minion around with me it corrects a wrong in my mind.
Put a wind-up Runar next to a Brave New Y'shtola...I just gotta have feels for the guy.
White Whittret. It's so cute and then it perches on my shoulder to watch what I'm doing. I play a FemRoe so it gets a mighty tall seat.
Not enough ferret love in here I agree I love my whittret.
My favorite will forever be the starbird. I will be her friend and show her the world and my adventures. She will never be lonely again.
The Nutkin, as well as a bunch of other small minions, do this too
Some minions interact with each other also, with the Yo-Kai event you’ll see them posing and facing each other— most any moogle type minions will interact in different ways… it’s incredible the level of detail that’s put into the little things to make you smile
I love seeing a bunch of moogles together.
Tora-jiro. I can't help but go d'awww everytime he stares up at me.
Everyone should have an orange brain cell receptacle cat, yes >:D
Torajiro is SO smol, I felt bad making him run after me ;_; So he gets to hang out on my island with all other cats instead.
Wind-up dulia chai I luv her and her hubby 🤭
Wind up Graha and Wind up Mystel
My favorite is Midgardsormr, I had him out permanently from ARR to mid SB but eventually decided I was sick of clicking on him instead of NPCs or gathering nodes or other players or literally anything that requires a click so he’s now on the minion rotation instead of permanent deployment.
On default keybinds you can hold X (keyboard) to avoid targeting minions and players
That would’ve been very useful information 3-4 years ago back when I was in HW, bit late for me now.
I like the wind up exdeath. Only because I'm a lala and that thing is as tall as me
Puff of Darkness for me! I have this little goth mommy on my shoulder whispering how I should punt lalafells into the sun and I love it!!!
Nutkin for me
Mine is the heavy hatchling, I named him Fat Boi and I love how he bounces instead of walking.
Lesser panda always and forever. I'll switch it out when I get a new one for like an hour and change it back because I miss it so much. Not even the corgi could change my mind
Alpha all day every day.
In case you didn't know, you can target it and type /beckon to manually request it to land on your shoulder too.
Ohl Deeh is mine. The wyvern minions use the old FFXI wyvern model from DRG, which was a pet job in that game.
Silkie! My baby girl 🐁
Vivi- err Gigi is best boy.
Starbird is best birb
I have a short list of favs; Shoebill, Midy, all of the wind-up Namzu, the Major-General, magic broom, magic bucket, and Benben Stone.
I love the Amaro Hatchling unreservedly.
The black kitten is objectively the best since it looks like my cat and I’m able to adventure with my buddy.
Sand Fox is the best https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N2hmFHpnG6k/maxresdefault.jpg
I really like the Gigi Minion. It was a long (and fun) questline to get it but well worth the effort.
I wish they would add a black gaelikitten. Black couerl kitten is my permanent minion because I have a black cat irl and it makes me really happy to have him there in the game, but if he could fly my life would be perfect
Bacon Bits is also the best for this reason!
Malone is the best. No further statement needed.
I sometimes switch minions, but my go-to has been the Baby Raptor since when I started playing basically.
I had made my character (a light blue "skin" with dark blue fur) and done the tutorials. When I zoned into the actual player area, some of my friends who got me into the game were waiting for me and one of them gifted me a few minions, including the raptor.
It coincidentally matched my characters colours so well, it became my staple companion!
My character: https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/30162764/
*Edit: right now I'm rocking the Torgal minion though, as Torgal is definitely best boi for ever, but I'll switch back to the raptor at some point.
mama :)
I believe /beckon will call it to your shoulder any time you need. But as others say, there's unique animations for too many minions, they're incredible!
Tinker bell
Calamari ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
That's the reason I love the koala
Carbon minion
Aerith
I use the puffin minion and it does the same and it is my precious baby
FELLOW GAELIKITTEN APPRECIATOR LET'S GOOOOOO
Axolotl Eft is my favorite minion.
But I do love the gaelikitten. Little head mounted cat
That's my favorite minion, too! 😻
Happy bunny :) I bought it on the shop but in game my excuse is I saved it in Eureka and it stayed.
Morpho
I dunno about best in the game but I tend to stick to just a couple. I'm a Lala, for reference, so most of the perching ones land on my head.
My go tos are Morpho, whitewittret, and Set of Primogs (5 mini moogles playing instruments). 99.9% of the time it's Morpho though.
I love Nanamo Ul Namo, so of course the Wind-Up Nanamo has accompanied me in all of my adventures from the beginning, only she is worthy of occupying my shoulder.
Wind up nanamo does that as well
For me and my little lala it's the Road Sparrow. He is my buddy Meep, named after my Zebra Finch that I had for a long time. I miss him.
I've stuck with Conditional Virtue pretty much since AV deigned to drop it.
Puff of Darkness because she will move around and sit on my shoulder.
Pink bean because it’s funny and I like him waving at stuff.
Pod 042 because I like Nier
Wind up Nu Mou is one of my favorites, their running animation is adorable.
Gaelikitten is also my favorite minion! It looks just like my pixie bobtail.
My favourite minion is the golden beaver. It’s like having my own personal Golden God Bidoof by my side.
i will ever be grateful to the copycat bulb for making me rich :>
Middy.
I like having the Father of Dragons perch on my head.
As a Lalafell, having Nanamo sit on my head is the only thing that brings me joy in life.
How am I supposed to kill gods without my trusty palico
My favorite minion is often entirely overlooked. There are other butterfly minions, but I really like the "Butterfly Effect" minion, I basically always have it out. It's really subtle when it's just fluttering about, I rarely get distracted by it like I do with other minions, but when I do notice it being there it just gives me a sense of calm.
/shrug
wind-up estinien, he holds up his lil eye to show it to you it’s soooo cute
dust bunny, for his lil crystal that he drops and chases🥹
Corgi 365 days a year!
A few can do that. My advise? Get the koala, when spawned the little guy crawls up your body and just chills sitting on your shoulder gripping your head. Adorable <3
The Morpho butterfly also sits on your shoulder
The Poogie. I am a huge Monster Hunter fan and having the Poogie with me all the time instead of in the town is just too good to pass up.
The birds minion also do that, the tiny succubus minion, the red panda... To ask them to come and land on your shoulder (your head if you're a lala) you can /beckon to them.
Some minions will react to emotes like /pet or /slap.
Most minions will come and eat in your hand if you /handover something to them.
Mine is the Magic Bucket, because when you go fishing, the bucket chills next to you and occasionally a lil' fish flops in & out of the water inside. Adds a fun little bit of immersion, especially if you like to use /sit.
(also I think it's hilarious to go running through cities with a sloshing bucket clonk-clonking behind me lol)