[dev1289] Job Adjustments

[bazookatooth]

Front line DDs and Pets need different Buffs and gear to put out damage and survive TP moves / AOE magic attacks and BST requires both now. Which, it can't have.

[Shirai]

Of course it's a healer problem. But knowing this doesn't change anything. The whole range only hype is caused by healer problems, good Whm's are rare. But how to change that? -> Not possible -> Building safe ranged PT's.
Atleast for shout groups.

And this mentality only adds to the problem.
But I guess it's easier to point fingers at others instead of trying to contribute to the sollution yourself by either educating healers, or becoming one yourself if you think they're all so bad.

Front line DDs and Pets need different Buffs and gear to put out damage and survive TP moves / AOE magic attacks and BST requires both now. Which, it can't have.

Nah, not really.
If my paperskin summoner and white mage with hardly any -DT gear in its idle sets can take one or two AoE's, so can a Beastmaster.
If you can't, you really need to look at your gearsets because if your idle and melee sets are not at least at iLevel stage you have other problems.

Now I do understand that some situational sets dependent on non-iLevel armor, I really do, but for that there's things like timing your moves.
It might prove a bit dificult in the begining, but practice makes perfect.

I'm sorry but Beastmaster hasn't become unplayable, it just takes a different approach now which most skilled players will eventually figure out if they haven't already.
You've just been put back in the same place as all the other melee jobs you've been leaving behind, you've had your fun and you knew this was coming eventually.
If you want "easy" ways to beat high level content, try thinking and figuring out about their mechanics because the content is not hard.

[Arthos]

And this mentality only adds to the problem.
But I guess it's easier to point fingers at others instead of trying to contribute to the sollution yourself by either educating healers, or becoming one yourself if you think they're all so bad.

No one points fingers at others, I'm talking about what i see. I have Whm and I know how hard it can be, sometimes I was good at it and sometimes not. And i dont blame them, they have the hardest job in game. But doesnt change the facts, good and fast Whm's are rare.

Nah, not really.
If my paperskin summoner and white mage with hardly any -DT gear in its idle sets can take one or two AoE's, so can a Beastmaster.
If you can't, you really need to look at your gearsets because if your idle and melee sets are not at least at iLevel stage you have other problems.

I suggest you to have a look at your gearsets, and maybe u find the difference between heavy and light armor. Compare magic defense bonus and magic evasion of both types. You may be surprised.
Also have a look at job traits of your white mage. And now take into count that most AoE's are magic and u know why u dont need DT gear to survive that. And why Bst may need it.