Real Beasdtmaster

I would really love to see Beastmaster added as a class, but not like SMN, I know many people are a fan of the current SMN, but I hate it.

I would love to see Beastmaster as a class where you grow alongside your animal companion, and you could either select one during the BST class quest, or tame one in the wild, or even have it be something like BLU where you have to travel the world to collect them through different challenges. Or even raising/raming them on the island.

Ultimately I want to be able to level up, name, and progress my animal companions similarly to some other MMOs.

I love a lot of things about XIV, but it really lacks a good pet class. Summoner isn't what I want in a pet class at all. I played it up until Endwalker and then just couldn't enjoy it anymore.

I'm not sure where to post this exactly, but saw suggestions for here, so here I am. Please put this in front of the developers. :)

The version where you tame a monster by fighting them enough times, and then making aether replicas using MP might be the version that's most likely to actually happen giving the engine that the game is based on.

Something like gau rages or mog dances, but pushed off into, lets say, 1 to 3 summoned critters that are casting the spells on thier own (and not linked to our own GCD and not being able to do actions based on orders from us).

Why?

Because having anything that isn't a player actually do an attack causes trouble. As well as having to cordinate players telling non players to do attacks... the summoner system we have now, after a number of itterations, that barely works, is the least bad that kind of system can get.

So... if we HAVE beastmaster, we won't be able to give it orders, and monsters won't be able to attack it, .... and if they do manage that, maybe MCH will get a better automaton queen.....

I agree, I would really love to see a real pet based job now we no longer have one. SCH is probably the only thing that can manage its pet/use actions that is left.

Either Beastmaster or Puppetmaster would be so good to have!
As much as I would like those two to be melee jobs fighting alongside your pet I am also not opposed to either being a physical ranged job considering we need another.

Beastmaster could use throwing axes/tomahawks
Puppetmaster could use a crossbow

I could definitely see beastmaster getting a limited job at some point. All sorts of opportunities to be had there.

That said, I think it's highly unlikely we'll get another pet job as a "real" job. They spent multiple expansions slowly stripping away pet management from SMN and SCH because it's always been kinda janky. I think YoshiP even went on record saying they were a pain to work with.

And I think a limited job would be more interesting. That would let them run wilder with how it works, since it wouldn't be tied to the tighter balance they have for standard jobs. It could have more interesting interactions.