Quote Originally Posted by Phogg View Post
That's not specific to you, but the concept of this entire thread. There's just no point to this thread other than "I don't like all these BSTs around, I think they suck, wah, so lets nerf them so I can feel super duper again!"

Funny thing about these threads and complaints, they are coming from the same sort of people who at 75 never took BSTs around anywhere because they thought they were gimp and underpowered compared to other DD's (which was in reality an equal load of crap as suggesting they are overpowered now when there is simply very little difference in the job aside from the move toward almost exclusive use of jug pets). Can't have it both ways, cupcakes.
my hero!

I'm a career beast myself. I levelled it because I didn't have the patience to wait LFP in the old days, pre level sync and all, and I loved it from day 1. I leveled it solo all the way to 75 as bst/brd because of elvan MP... and probably some deep-seated masochistic tendancies. I succeeded. It took a LONG time. I got to know the ins and outs of the job VERY well. I've survived multiple nerfs and kept going. I put up with being shut out of all end-game group content until I levelled my bard so I could do that too. My way of playing the game has gotten me a wonderful reputation AS A PERSON amongst other players on the server. Although my beast was often able to "out-do" other players on certain content, this was attributed to my being good at the job.

It does sadden me to see my favorite job's reputation getting tarnished by poorly skilled band-wagon beasts; my consolation is that the same thing has happened to almost every other job. The issue isn't that beast has gotten strong, it's that the prey has gotten weak. SE went in a direction that almost every job should be a solo power-house, so a job like beast, pup, smn and the like that already were power-houses seem to be even moreso. Strange, there's still plenty that beast can't solo-at least in any meaningful way. !! proc systems are murder on this job. Sure, we can pet proc in Dynamis but it's not reliable; my prey is usually dead with at most 1 attempt from my pet because the prey is so damn weak. I actually prefer pup there because I can proc all 3 varieties.

I can solo +2 drop mobs in Aby. BFD!!! I have to use another job to get pops because with beast I have virtually no chance to get KI pop items since I can't proc more than 2% of the time. Of course, even if I DO kill the mob, it isn't procced, so my drops are crap. VW? who cares, there are no drops in VW as near as I can tell. Point of fact, the later end-game stuff is just a drain on my gil balance to keep in jugs/food. And I'd like my damn inventory back if anyone from SE reads this!!!

This job has enough negative issues without haters trying to weaken it because they don't want to level it themselves. I LOATHE playing ninja, I have never once requested it be nerfed, quite the contrary, I advocate for its skills to be broadened. I advocate for rng to have its damage calc scaled back up to the old days when they were on par with blms as they were meant to be.

Save the job, beef the prey!