4 new BST posts in 2017 and 100,000+ views

[Sirmarki]

If BST had to be nerfed with 7-yalm distance restriction 3 years ago

This distance is too short, it needs to be expanded. For the following reasons, in my experience:

1. Your pet is near death, you get knocked back as you hit "Reward".... You get "Out of range" - Pet dies, your timers are down, you can't recall a new pet.
2. You're righting a 'large monster' - Standing in front of it is too dangerous, you stand behind, your pet is at the front... You get "Out of range" for healing/ready.
3. Amnesia completely disables a Beastmaster.
4. You aggro multiple monsters and your pet rotates hate between said monsters. It moves out of range, you can't ready/heal.

[Gwydion]

This distance is too short, it needs to be expanded. For the following reasons, in my experience:

1. Your pet is near death, you get knocked back as you hit "Reward".... You get "Out of range" - Pet dies, your timers are down, you can't recall a new pet.
2. You're righting a 'large monster' - Standing in front of it is too dangerous, you stand behind, your pet is at the front... You get "Out of range" for healing/ready.
3. Amnesia completely disables a Beastmaster.
4. You aggro multiple monsters and your pet rotates hate between said monsters. It moves out of range, you can't ready/heal.

100% agree. Well-said.

[Rwolf]

I also agree and will continue saying revert distance until the servers close. It's mindboggling why the limitation exists.

There is no valid argument. Not how the job was intended? NIN wasn't intended to be a tank but they got a tank stance and enmity spell anyway. BST should melee with pet? We were when applicable, you don't melee everything. They'll just sit back and do nothing but push a button? SMN and PUP says hi. Also who is it hurting. Their pets are way more disposable. You still had to pay more attention than them.

[Gwydion]

I also agree and will continue saying revert distance until the servers close. It's mindboggling why the limitation exists.

There is no valid argument. Not how the job was intended? NIN wasn't intended to be a tank but they got a tank stance and enmity spell anyway. BST should melee with pet? We were when applicable, you don't melee everything. They'll just sit back and do nothing but push a button? SMN and PUP says hi. Also who is it hurting. Their pets are way more disposable. You still had to pay more attention than them.

Thank you for your support RWolf. I hope SE takes the currently broken mechanics of Beastmaster seriously and makes meaningful changes.

[vavant]

I cant remmber the dev post but it reads( we have no intention of reverting the range for pet commands we looked in too lowering the dmg pets do but found players accustomed to the dmg) now to me that read as this (if we get more complaints dmg gets nerfed) i read that as a threat i cant beleave few whiners could do this its a shame...

[vavant]

Well ppl like shiyo ruins stuff for ppl cause they hate pet jobs doing anything

[Gwydion]

8 years later and we still don't have a complete frontline DD in Beastmaster.

I think any of the following changes would be a nice start:

• Adding Legendary jug pets ("primal form" would be a nod to The Voracious Resurgence story).
• More Ready abilities that buff Beastmaster and even Party Members
• Native Dual Wield 1 for Beastmasters at Level 99.
• Removing Beast Healer Group 2 Merits with a Diffusion type ability for Pet buffs.
• Removing Beast Affinity and uncapping our jug pets. (Replace with anything for Frontline, like enabling Pets to Cover the Beastmaster player with a significant frequency).

Beastmaster job adjustments were a concern that was addressed in the survey last November. I hope SE is cooking up something special for Beastmaster players.

Thank you!