Quote Originally Posted by SpankWustler View Post
While true enough, this doesn't sound like it relates to the new Beast Master job ability so much as FFXI and Abyssea in general.

Would you care to meet the 5,000 other people who play melee jobs and have complained about similar issues?

The solution boils down to "Do things in a circle of friends that doesn't mind one or two folks being on a job just to smack things." Not "Pretend you're surgically grafted to a ladybug." Pick-up groups have always been awful in every conceivable way, and FFXI should not be designed around them.
Sure, but I don't think it helps for players not to raise these balance issues.

When development time is spent making an ability which at best, I won't use because it is too expensive instead of something which will make the job I like playing worth having along (not just out of pity/friendship) in a serious party - I feel like it is worthwhile to raise concerns.