Feral Howl

[Vagrua]

Feral Howl barely ever works on most Notorious Monsters especially those being in Abyssea. Considering other merit abilities such as Angon or Tomahawk for Dragoons and Warriors; Feral Howl should be able to work more often or 100% on NMs just like them. Is it possible to improve this meritable ability? Would 1 stun ability for BST every 5 minutes really be game breaking?

[Fadnog]

I personally don't like the inconsistency with both landing it and duration of the effect. When it does work i love it seeing as its like 1 of 2 ways for a player to be able to inflict fear. I think it would be a worthwhile merit if its acc was decent and could land on all mobs.

[Zaknafein]

Yeah this JA is in serious need of some help.

[Limecat]

There are a lot of ways it could be fixed:
Change it to a hard five minute cooldown and have the merits increase it's accuracy(by a non-trivial amount) instead.
Leave it as-is but greatly reduce the chance of it missing and set the minimum duration to one second.
Chance of missing still there but merits set duration at 2/4/6/8/10 seconds when it does connect.
yadda yadda yadda

I just hope they do improve it sooner or later.

[ericnuke]

With Beastmaster benig my first 75 job I must say I never have like abilities that work randomly or under a latent effects (that goes with any job for me actually). The idea of bst being able to stun was great when it came out, but never got implemented correctly and work to help out in any shape or form. I tend to tell others who ask about to merit reward/call beast recast for T1 and beast affinity/healer for T2. Unless a huge change is made to feral howl, i will not use nor recommend this to any other bst. But as with any other job, make it to fit your playstyle, one thing I loved about bst is I seen people put little to no gil into gear do just as well as those who buy the best gear possible to play it. Not many jobs can do that.

[Crawlerbasher]

I use Feral Howl often in Dynamis.
As its one of the trigger condition for Job Ability.
I use it when I can to get that trigger in dynamis

[SNK]

I just got rid of it. Until it actually becomes something worth a damn, It's better to merit other abilities.

[Gotterdammerung]

Even if they fixed it to be 100% accurate i wouldnt merit it. I find the other options more valuable. Its only ever been good for 2 things. Claiming and Oshit moments. I dont need any more safety nets. I do fine on claiming.

I also dont think the recast should be messed with. A very short recast with fixed accuracy would just turn bst into another stunner class. And while being useful, to me it just doesnt fit. Not to mention it would be unbalanced.

[blowfin]

I just got rid of it. Until it actually becomes something worth a damn

It's your only instant claim tool when you have a pet out. Granted, it's not much consolation, but it has it's uses in 0.01% of situations

[Reauland]

Its only ever been good for 2 things. Claiming and Oshit moments.

I have lots of those moments . . .

I still have mine for its claiming potential, but I'm with the others who think that it should be far, far more accurate.