Nerf Beastmaster

[Ulth]

You've been playing long enough to know that nothing they do has a legit reason. The only reason is "too many people used it" It's only a matter of time before another magic nerf too.

I bet they do something like every 2 mnd will give 1 magic defense giving enemy's much higher magic defenses, but it also has the same effect on players making magic aoes less dangerous and bringing back melee, then the cycle repeats. melee>rng>pet>magic>melee>rng>pet>magic...

[Jile]

Can SE Dev's please - sincerely please - look at the random nature that this new limited-range JA nerf functions? Please?

When we're having to run around and 'hope' our JA's will work and it's so profoundly random - its maddening!

An adjustment needs to be made to allow us to be within 15 yalms of our pet, regardless of if the pet can "see" us or not, the JA's work.

I am no longer asking that they be restored to their original distance but right now the lack of consistent functionality is infuriating.

Dev's please go play BST, see that we have not been complaining without reason and fix the mistake, please.

[Galing]

I just came back to the game after a few months off and I am immediately leaving again. This bst nerf suuuuuuuuuucks!!!

[Jile]

It's a shame SE does not quite realize how profoundly they ruined the joy that it was to play BST.

It's a shame that you returned to a ruined job - I maintain my hope that SE will repair the damage - but for now it's just that, a hope.

[dasva]

Or how ridiculous it is to after the game has more or less ended tell us the way we've been playing since the job was released was wrong

[Galing]

I think the part that makes me mad is the excuse people are using to way they did this nerf. I was told it was for afk killing. If its afk killing then a distance nerf does nothing to change that. Also what is the point of being a bst if I have to fight on top of my pet lol?

I leveled bst back year and years ago. It was not an easy thing to level and you were all alone and pretty bored sometimes but you knew by leveling this job (which most people did not level back then) that you would have a slightly OP job as a reward. Same thing with Rangers back 11-12 years ago before their first nerf. They were easy as hell to level but you had to drop a LOT of gil on ammo and most people did not want to do that. After you had it leveled though it was a bit OP and you leveled fast. That imo is a reward for leveling jobs that not so many other people level.

Like Dasva said this is ridiculous to nerf something after the game is over lol, I have never been able to read SE and figure out what goes through their heads.

[elqplau]

Hello? When did bst become a soloist job?? I've been playing since peeps where being referred to alakazahm not wiki or bwiki my best has been in my my since about a month after I flagged it....that was maybe 10 years now and has not nor will see light of day past lvl 9 I stopped playing best because charm kept leaving me 2 MoBs to kill I spent as much time coming back from the HP and rezoning as I did getting dead.....I have solod ALL my jobs since rdm was nurfed so long ago and I'm here to tell u I'd rather have a mushy whom solo than bst neday

[Kensagaku]

Uh... BST has -always- been a soloist job up until recently. Also you really shouldn't speak for the job if it never made it past level 9. Just a thought, go back to the RDM thread where you claim you can't hit anything while RDM is at one of its peaks when it comes to melee right now, thanks to all the good melee gear available to it now.

Back on topic, I know I'm beating a dead horse here but I'm in full agreement with the fact that the nerf is ridiculous. The range should have been radial based on the mob (still forcing BST into melee but allowing it to not stand in front of every attack your pet should be tanking), or have a wider range to allow us to be on the sides/back to avoid the conal AoEs. They've done a pretty good job giving us hybrid gear (look at the new Arktoi, it's really good for hybrid play, or acc as a whole), and their direction does seem to be moving us to the front line, but they need to either go about it all the way by fixing the JA ranges to allow us to move into our more ideal position in frontline combat, or they need to revert everything back to where it was.

[Ketaru]

Uh... BST has -always- been a soloist job up until recently. Also you really shouldn't speak for the job if it never made it past level 9. Just a thought, go back to the RDM thread where you claim you can't hit anything while RDM is at one of its peaks when it comes to melee right now, thanks to all the good melee gear available to it now.

I'm inclined to think elqplau is a genuine troll. Surely, nobody's typing could be so horrendous if it weren't meant to be satirical. Over there, she is saying RDM is no good at meleeing and is using Blurred sword as evidence. It just can't be serious.

If any job is a terrible meleer, it's BST. It has no innate abilities that allow it to generate TP Faster. It's only direct damage buffing ability is Killer Instinct, which is very situational (honestly, I would love to see the day it gets more general application, but that would require melee to be brought back into the game...and for BST to be meleeing right beside them). It gains no form of Subtle Blow, to mitigate the TP it is giving to the target for its pitiful damage. One of its best weapons right now is not an iLevel weapon at all, but an Abyssea-era drop.

If their goal was always for BSTs to melee alongside their pets, shouldn't the BST's melee be AT LEAST as good as a melee RDMs?

[dasva]

So now they boost physical dmg for players to more resemble jug pet pdif allowing them to do even more dmg now but without all the failings of having to use a pet and master. Joy