What is Beastmaster?

[Economizer]

Beastmaster has always had a bit of a solo edge to it from what I've seen and heard.

Then there is the bst only armor(khimaira,bison) with MP+ on it to add even more wtf to my identity crisis.

BST/WHM used to be one of the most popular combos for soloing. You sub White Mage to cure yourself, and have the pet do most of the fighting, but you get to jump into the fray when the situation calls for it.

These days, you Beastmasters generally sub Ninja or Dancer for Dual Wield and healing/damage mitigation. I've also seen Red Mage as a viable sub, since it also comes with some crowd control and MP regeneration, meaning less time spent self healing.

[Areola]

BST/WHM used to be one of the most popular combos for soloing. You sub White Mage to cure yourself, and have the pet do most of the fighting, but you get to jump into the fray when the situation calls for it.

I know. But I still find it odd that they would add MP to a job specific armor that belongs to a job with no native mp. But now that im thinking about it bard is the same way with the sha'ir set.

Bst had a huge selection of armor pre-abyssea like the kirin's osode set hecatome set, adamant set, other awesome stuff that I'm forgetting atm. I've been pondering about bst for years i love it but i still dong get why ^^;