Sup beast community, SE, and devs^^
Well, the whole dragon jug pet thing stirred up quite a debate; drgs did not feel it was fair, SE viewed it as invading drg territory and so forth. However, iirc, these mobs are well within bst's ecosystem. With that being said, I have a few questions;
What is the deal with magical pets and monsters that posses magical/special normal attacks?
I noticed that these monsters cast magic and are usually blms. We have no true mage pets, save the non-casting frog. Imo, it would be interesting to have a mage pet; perhaps add a new dimension to bst.
Flans are natural wildlife and are part of beast's ecosystem hence are fair game imo. http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Category:Flans
Also;
These 5 are birds, beast, vermin, lizards, and aquans respectively, which are part of bst's ecosystem as-well.
Harpeia are birds, simple enough. For the most part, these are usually mages. Surprisingly, this monster has no broken moves. A beast -esque garuda. These mobs have powerful tp attacks, by far the best bird mob.
Yztargs are located in kahmir drifts; beastruction is definitely broken, bonebreaking barrage should be adjusted, the hp down will not land on crap that mattered. Iirc, megascissors was adjusted in monstrosity; from %hp based to 300% dmg? I do not see an issue with this guy. Hits like a truck. These things have some sweet animations, I would take these over any beast, including the the legendary big boys or the anticipated opo-opo.
Flans are non-charamble, but so were Falcorr, Raphie, Ibuki, and the toads.
Panopots are charmble.
Craklaws are aquans. Sundering Snip; need I say more?
Mantids are vermin. Would take this over a scorpion personally.
Matamata are lizards. The stuns on these and the craklaw are far from broken. Originally, I believed they could lead to an bst army constantly stunning crap, but while fighting these, it does not a proc on occasions and they tend to favor the front attacks (The crabs from my experience). The duration of the stun is pretty short as-well.
I noticed that these monsters are within bst's ecoysystem and are rather special, which is way I singled them out. They are pretty unique to say the least. Bst deserve something unique and worthwhile for a change, we have bean hearing no all month long, some solid pets would surely cheer everyone up. These are not dragons, skeletons, etc, but within beasts ecosystem.
Imo, there is some serious potential with casting pets. The majority of our jugs are melee, but in reality, some monsters are not necessarily melee oriented. The others have special -esque attacks, but that is no reason to hold them back.
SE, how do you feel about these guys? Or pets with special normal attacks/casting pets? Surely I am not the only bst hoping for these in jug form^^ Currently, this appears to be a new trend for monsters. Several of them use special strikes, Can we have them?
They are well within our ecosystem, whats the deal with special strikers and mage pets? Why were normal monsters such as yztargs, craklaws, mantids, matamata glossed over in favor of other SoA mobs that repeated, such as rabbits, crabs, and mandies? Harpeia are also special strikers; what the deal with these birds? Why haven't any casting jugs been relased (Panopots, flans, harpeia or hecteyes)?