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

[Camiie]

Why does this 2-hour even involve eating our pet? Why does a 2-hour have to have a drawback other than a 2-HOUR RECAST TIMER? Because it's something for BST?

[Calamity]

Why does this 2-hour even involve eating our pet? Why does a 2-hour have to have a drawback other than a 2-HOUR RECAST TIMER? Because it's something for BST?

I've been repeating this same question every single chance in multiple forum topics. I keep waiting and hoping that maybe eventually we'll have an answer.

[Fadnog]

So as it stands now the new 2Hr is only good for swapping pets when yours is about to die?

Though at that point the heal and erase would be pretty much wasted because if I'm needing to swap pets I'm probably not fighting along side of it.

I guess if I'm in a group on BST for whatever reason, and fighting something that spams AoEs I could use it help the healer I guess.

If they insist on keeping it this way they should at least make it reset our Call Beast timer, that would make it slightly useful.

[Xilk]

yeah, it doesn't make sense that the bst 2 hour requires a major sacrifice (especially for such lackluster benefits)

[Glamdring]

So as it stands now the new 2Hr is only good for swapping pets when yours is about to die?

Though at that point the heal and erase would be pretty much wasted because if I'm needing to swap pets I'm probably not fighting along side of it.

I guess if I'm in a group on BST for whatever reason, and fighting something that spams AoEs I could use it help the healer I guess.

If they insist on keeping it this way they should at least make it reset our Call Beast timer, that would make it slightly useful.

The above post is what is known as "looking at the yellow snow and calling it an Italian Ice"

devs, we are trying to force a theoretical situation that will never occur in normal play where this 2-hour might have some kind of utility. We can only come up with something like this, which doesn't happen. It just doesn't. A Group of beasts will stagger their recall timers if it is something THAT bad so we never have to make it easy on the healer, we have pet food and dawn mulsum if we are approaching a killer fight, usually a temp item like a shepards drink or something too since there are virtually no fights in areas that don't feature temps that are difficult. Maybe Arch-Dynamis lord, that's about it.

Take the hint.

[Vandheer]

BST:
We understand that sacrificing your pet for Stoneskin results in a reduction in attack power. This Stoneskin effect is not used like the magic spell Stoneskin that you would use before entering a fight. It is something that is used in a crisis situation in order to recover and avoid emergencies (For example, if your pet is on the verge of dying and when that happens you will be put in a dangerous spot, etc.)

Thank you for getting an example of how this 2-hour would be used from the team Okipuit. They still just don't get it though. In order for Beastmasters to utilize this 2-hour how it was intended in the our example would force Beastmasters to play at a lesser skill level then we do to get the most out of the 2-hour. Beastmaster pets have, Dawn Muslum and Reward (to keeping them alive), Run Wild when the (pet will def die or to wrap up a fight), and a 5 min recast timer on Call Beast. For the Master we have our pets to take most of the damage, /dnc to heal ourselves, /dnc to heal status aliments, or various other subs to fill in what we need for whatever we plan to take on. The reality of this new Beastmaster 2-hour is it will not do anything for Beastmaster unless you force it to.

If you want to make 2 different situational 2-hours at least give us something more reasonable then this.

[Caketime]

BST:
We understand that sacrificing your pet for Stoneskin results in a reduction in attack power. This Stoneskin effect is not used like the magic spell Stoneskin that you would use before entering a fight. It is something that is used in a crisis situation in order to recover and avoid emergencies (For example, if your pet is on the verge of dying and when that happens you will be put in a dangerous spot, etc.)

Or I could pop a Dawn Mulsum and laugh all the way to the bank. Or put on my movement+ shoes, pop Feral Howl and go into kite mode until timers are refreshed. Or go into the fight with Call Beast up and simply change pets when needed and Snarl, crisis averted. Or just allow the other BST to tank for a minute while my timer is refreshed. There are so many ways to avoid the above scenario, this ability is worthless for any BST that knows how to do it right, and the rest who don't need to learn.

[deces]

Maybe if we type all of our comments in japaneses onry so they will take a second of their time and read some of them.

[FrankReynolds]

Maybe if we type all of our comments in japaneses onry so they will take a second of their time and read some of them.

The JP players are saying the same things as far as I can tell (note to self: learn to speak / read Japanese).

[Ophannus]

What happened to the new 2hr they promised BST that would allow them to call a powerful notorious monster pet? Or did they just turn that into Run Wild?