SE plz revise your ideas about beastmaster and pets!

In a recent Yoshi-P interview he mentioned that pets will be like in FFXI, where you just tame it and use it, period.

I think this is a bad idea, even more considering that other mmos have long expanded on that system and have done it way better. Plz let the pets level up with your character, let them learn abilities and have ways to change/increase their stats or cross learn abilities from other pets etc..

It would be sad that they are just plain weapons where you cannot customize them at all. It will end up with one pet being the prime choice of all beastmasters and they will all use the same. Let us have diversity, choice and customization.

We can't simply go with a system that is inferior to the competition. We should be ahead of the curve and inovate on said systems!

Really, I thought that system was superior to other games I played. I liked finding areas with mobs that were weak against other mobs then using them to fight each other.

I didn't care for always having to level my pet, then if I changed to a new one I would have to level it again. Using the surrounding landscape and mob placement was more interesting to me.

He only believes it's a bad idea because it pertains to FFXI.

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Plz let the pets level up with your character

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Avatars, Automata and Wyverns leveled with your character as well as gained new abilities, so taking the system from XI on a base level is already what you're asking for. The reason it's "inferior" is because other MMOs are focused on Pets (especially Rappelz), FFXI and XIV aren't pet focused games.

Honestly I prefered Bst in XI over hunter in WoW and the Rift counterparts.

It allowed you to take advantage of the local mobs and such.

I still say Xi's bst is far superior to almost all its competitors pet tamer classes. Especially after SE let us choose which abilities we made the pets use.

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Originally Posted by Onidemon

In a recent Yoshi-P interview he mentioned that pets will be like in FFXI, where you just tame it and use it, period.

I think this is a bad idea, even more considering that other mmos have long expanded on that system and have done it way better. Plz let the pets level up with your character, let them learn abilities and have ways to change/increase their stats or cross learn abilities from other pets etc..

It would be sad that they are just plain weapons where you cannot customize them at all. It will end up with one pet being the prime choice of all beastmasters and they will all use the same. Let us have diversity, choice and customization.

We can't simply go with a system that is inferior to the competition. We should be ahead of the curve and inovate on said systems!

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There is nothing to suggest that taming would be like in 11, you tame beasts in WoW before you level them up.

Also, isn't it a bit early to jump to conclusions about how the system will work?

Yoshi stated in an interview that there would be 3 levels of growth (or absence of) with pets:


1) tamed pets, no growth
2) summons and possibly wyverns: level up as you do
3) chocobos: have their own levels to grind and grow


At some point I'm not sure leveling every single pet would a good idea, the proposed system seems fairly balanced to me. And he also mentioned that summoner could be the job over the beastmaster class

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Originally Posted by Alerith

Also, isn't it a bit early to jump to conclusions about how the system will work?

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A lot. we still need to get arcanist and musketeer wich are nearest and we aready jump on conclusion with jobs to be released 1 year lol

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Originally Posted by jones6

Really, I thought that system was superior to other games I played. I liked finding areas with mobs that were weak against other mobs then using them to fight each other.

I didn't care for always having to level my pet, then if I changed to a new one I would have to level it again. Using the surrounding landscape and mob placement was more interesting to me.

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Why always change pet to match the ones you fight? Even if you do level and customize your pet, some abilities and skills could be carried over to new pets.

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Originally Posted by yukikaze_yanagi

A lot. we still need to get arcanist and musketeer wich are nearest and we aready jump on conclusion with jobs to be released 1 year lol

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Sorry if I'm too lazy to post the link, but I read this morning that actually they want to focus on what the game needs most (more casters, and a pet class, no more attacker for now) instead of what has been in the previous plans.

So I think it's reasonable to expect a pet/summon type of class/job next, along with a caster type