Quote Originally Posted by Rwolf View Post
I agree with Olor, Beastmaster is currently really expensive compared to other classes. If you decided to level Cooking and make your own resources, that's awesome. But it shouldn't be a requirement to be cost effective. It's the same argument people use to give for Ranger, to raise Woodworking and Smithing to play the job.

Ranger has an absurd amount of Recycle. Which is on also on gear that is worth using for damage and with Relic Cap, considerably boosts your damage. Plus Ranger has Scavenge to return a good deal of that 10% ammo spent. Even Ninja and Corsair have abilities and gear that reduce their consumption of items. Not only that but have universal tools to even further reduce their inventory and gil loss. Beastmaster is growing to need more and more consumables with zero amounts of recovery or consolidation of inventory.

Charmed pets are also are so incredibly weak now in level 100+ content compared to using a jug pet. It is basically just a free pet and no other pet job is so severely penalized with free pets. Pet food is a great step in the right direction for pet jobs but Beastmaster definitely needs cost reductions. I still see no reason why a Beastmaster pet can't zone with you and reappear you go into a city, if all other pets are capable of it. I don't see why jug pets need a duration timer either. I'm sure it doesn't make crafters happy but it didn't stop them when it came to Ninja, Ranger, and Corsair.
I see what you are saying; but if you do not lvl crafts, that is on you tho, no harm no foul; that is just the way it is. Even if I did not make my own; personally, jugs are not that expensive considering the various non-crafting money making methods in this game. Harvesting is pretty inexpensive; I get asked to make some jugs for ppl when they bring the mats; so you do not have to lvl a craft; but it is nice to have.

I do agree that it should not be necessary; however, how long have players been complaining about bst? Since its' release if I recall correctly. Bst has flawed mechanics to begin with. I honestly feel that if SE could go back in time and delete bst and pup from the game; they would do so. Charm has bad game-play mechanics, because wild animals are not always available and some are they are rather weak at 99. Jugs are a better concept, however, it leads to complaining about prices. Jugs should be obtained from a quest and be usable at will, but still have the same call beast timer restrictions. For instance; a quest that grants you a scorpion jug (yes, I am not letting this go, lol) which does not consume. Pet food should still be crafted because they are not essential; the pet is.