By Phoenix.Capuchin 2014-01-20 14:17:11
One annoying thing about the item level animators: they dropped the old standard bonus of DEX+ for the master. So if for some reason you completely don't care about the pet level, Deluxe Animator's DEX+6 might actually still be the best.
Obviously never the case if you're using a DD puppet or nuking, but not inconceivable that you could find yourself in a situation where you totally don't care about pet level. For instance, I was doing AA MR difficult a couple weeks ago, with WHM puppet (since it's impractical to have a pet up close, and the RNG frame's ranged accuracy wasn't up to my liking). I was meleeing PUP/NIN and dumping hate onto puppet with ventriloquy. I would have gotten more out of DEX+6 than I would out of higher level automaton there.
But yeah other than that little bit of weirdness, Divinator > Eminent > Alternator.