A shame this is even necessary. My current favorite PC is a devoted/barbarian. The figurine is the closest I could come to an animal companion without being a ranger. Don't get me wrong. I love rangers, one of my three favorite classes actually. I just wanted a melee specialist with an animal companion this time. I didn't even want companion advantages. So the jade tiger figurine has been a great option for me.
Thanks,
Joe
You mean to have all the benefits of a ranger class specced heavily into a pet, so essentially getting a free 3rd multi class and you dont see the issue with that and balancing?
There is literally a subspec of ranger about being in melee with your pet, what you mean to say is you want that with none of the drawbacks which is what figurines were. They definitely needed some sort of balancing, though im not 100% sold on this being it instead of weaker summons.