Nerf Beastmaster

[dasva]

It very well could be a server thing. Before bst became powerful it was all mages as well that was wanted on Asura (Vagary etc kinda forced that). Now it is totally all bst for almost anything, which I hear complaints about from others daily about groups only wanting bst. Sogoro and I were even watching shouts last night in town and talking and people were shouting for only bst with cap JP for a Escha RuAun T3 NM (not Morta), which is totally not needed but this guy was saying he wanted guaranteed win etc.

I totally know bst been the red head step child. Before bst got powerful it was not used for anything besides being solo, and a lot of people on game still feel that it should be for that. I have heard many people say that. I have two people in my LS with bst geared for endgame, and I have brought them to events a handful of times but bst is not very well liked in my ls. I get lots of complaints if I bring pet jobs because people do not think we should be wasting buffs for them, etc. My LS is more mage heavy and does not have many pet jobs, (2 bst, and a few smn is all and they not "main" jobs but geared and ready to use). I am kinda stuck in the middle with using pet jobs in event. If I do not bring them then they are unhappy. If I do then everyone else is unhappy. Sigh, sometimes it sucks to be a leader of a LS. I try to make everyone happy but realistically that is not possible.

Also depends on content... I don't think anything but mages was ever popular for vagary here other than having sams for skillchaining. But for other stuff before bsts it was generally either mages or rngs for safer content (though rngs have really lost popularity since the enmity update) and sam, blu and/or thf for melee dmg blu especially when mixed dmg, terror and/or requiescat was good. But yeah of the shouts I could read last night 1 was for lol 18 man vagary which was looking for blm, bst, brd, pld, whm, sch, brd, cor, geo and pld. Then there was like 3 SR shouts all of them asking for whm, geo, blm and sch (that can skillchain). Speaking of server shout differences just how common are shouts for higher up escha because we don't see hardly any over here at least English ones during NA/JP time (I'm rarely on during EU time)

Part of that was it was basically just a bad axe warrior that could dump it's hate (which actually was useful at times in pt play). I did manage to do decent dmg when all out geared for it... but no one would give me buffs. But yeah it was basically a sub par DD which means unused so had so solo and durdle things to death. My current ls is weird. It's a pet ls so almost everyone either has a pet job, support for those pets, pld or whm. That said most of us have mages as well and since jug are often suboptimal especially for the ones not really well geared we almost as often use mage/smn strategies. Though since not all do it leads to some interesting things like AoEing stuff with mages and pets... which sorta works. It also probably doesn't help that our best geared bsts are also our best geared plds lol. Or that we have so few cors/geos