[dev1135] Beastmaster 2-Hour Ability Comments After Testing.

[Falkirk]

As an addendum to Vandheer's list, anyone with 5/5 Beast Affinity merits and enhanced Monster Gloves +2 will have a level 99 NurseryNazuna with 6140 Max HP (3070 Stoneskin).

... I'll be very sad to see this 2-hour enter the main servers, as-is. There must be some sensible alternative that the Dev Team will consider. Please. ; ; I really like some of the suggestions in this thread, especially the one-time HNM summon and the Killer Effect boost. Both of these would make me feel like I had supreme dominion over the Beasts and Birds of Vana'diel and would be very fitting BST 2-hours.

It's very satisfying to see a long string of intimidation messages in the chatlog as a foe cowers in fear before you. Giving us 3 minutes of capped Killer Effects would give us that mighty Tarzan feeling, as our mere presence threatens oncoming hoards. If the Development Team is dead set on a defensive tactic for BST, this would be a fine way to go. It goes without saying, but there would be a -25% Damage Taken effect while wearing Ferine Gausape +2. And even for BSTs who don't have the AF3+2 body, there will still be a defensive solution in place with intimidation procs.

This would fall under the "Enhanced Specialty" category of 2-hours, and when applicable would be fun and empowering. Probably more fun than a Stoneskin effect which will be smashed into oblivion after several hits, followed by a lonesome BST hitting the ground.

[Calamity]

So what you're saying is there will actually be a reason to have 5/5 beast affinity again? Oh good. -.-

[Limecat]

If the overall duration is really long, I could see it being "eh, why not" for things where you have to run in and out(Carabosse changing to BLM mode, for example). Call pet, wait on call beast timer, eat pet, call new one, start fight. One improvement I would suggest is that the stoneskin also comes with any feral skills the pet had. If you could eat a pet and suddenly have huge specific damage reductions, it would make this situational but actually useful.

Also, I dare you to make the icon a picture of a chocobo head inside a hamburger bun.

[Vandheer]

If the overall duration is really long, I could see it being "eh, why not" for things where you have to run in and out(Carabosse changing to BLM mode, for example). Call pet, wait on call beast timer, eat pet, call new one, start fight. One improvement I would suggest is that the stoneskin also comes with any feral skills the pet had. If you could eat a pet and suddenly have huge specific damage reductions, it would make this situational but actually useful.

This is true if the duration was long it could be used for something like this but even that is still pushing it. If you were to call a pet just to eat it you would be tossing gil down the drain without even utilizing this 2-hours full effect. The other two parts of this effect are to heal the Beastmasters HP to full and to remove all debuffs. Saying you'd use it only for the Stoneskin is also funny because originally it didn't have any Stoneskin... it was a dinky reraise. Stoneskin is an improvement but so long as this 2-hour kills off the Beastmasters pet it will remain incredibly niche.

[Caketime]

+1 for Chocoburger. If they're going to give us this horrible ability it might as well sport a humorous icon.

[SpankWustler]

I just can't wait for the discovery that, while the Stoneskin provides 2000+ HP, it only has a 15 second duration.

[Calamity]

I'm also waiting to discover that there's a cap they have neglected to tell us about.

[Dreamin]

I just can't wait for the discovery that, while the Stoneskin provides 2000+ HP, it only has a 15 second duration.

Dont give them anymore ideas...

[Glamdring]

Ok, so, you modified the 2-hour, great, thanks for listening. Now for the comments...
IT STILL SUCKS!!!
we're a pet job, the job is built around and pretty much all about the pet, to 2hour, we have to waste the pet, survive through the repop timer and try to get things done AT OUR WEAKEST! BRILLIANT!

try again man, you're still failing miserably (the devs, not singling you out Cam...)

I honestly can't think of a single situation where I'd want to purposely waste a jug pet and try to play petless through a cool-down timer.

[FrankReynolds]

Do they really not understand that you wouldn't need stoneskin if you hadn't just one shotted your pet?