Flayer: Beastmaster and Blue Mage Proposal

[Gamemako]

2: Tame (FLA/BST)/Learning (BLU): (A) FLA/BST: Allows you to tame a monster to use as a pet. Upon successful taming the pet can now also be equipped in a pet slot for future use. (must be equal or lower level to the FLA/BST). BLU: Allows you to learn a monster's ability after seeing it used (does not need to be used on the BLU, BLU must be alive and within experience points range). Recast: 60s

7 pet types. Really now. Your class has almost no abilities and carries a pointless and obnoxious need for hunting up random types of mobs in the field once per level. You've collected:

1. Massive design time need, huge balance issues with 50+ pets
2. Redundancy out the wazoo
3. Generally HORRIBLY boring character to play due to utter lack of player involvement. You have 5 weaponskills, two of which are debuffs.
4. Hassles player to run off and "tame" mobs -- I'm assuming you aren't claiming permadeath to those mobs, which would be a hilarious mess
5. Fails to account for the fact that not all mobs have level-appropriate versions

And that's not even touching the pet stockroom issues, with the large number of opponents you'd have to collect and index (at least 7 classes of pets).

[MartaDemireux]

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1. There could be as few as 7 pets. I only listed all those monsters to give an idea of the types for those unfamiliar. They could make it so you can only store 1 pet per type.
2. How so?
3. For BST they have 7 attacks (5 FLA, 2 BST). All of which have their own uses. Since pets have their own abilities too I went lighter on the weaponskills so you can focus on your pet more. Looks less boring to me than a BLM spamming fire and then a blizzard... For BLU every Soul is correlated to their equipped ability so they have 16 potential attacks/buffs/debuffs/heals (12 FLA, 4 BLU).
4. It's a one time taming system. To counter the issue I think you're mentioning: when a monster gets tamed it could register as being killed so it can respawn even though have a copy as a pet.
5. Your pet syncs to your level just like ACN and your companion. When you call it out it is equal to your level. I did make sure there would be at least 1 monster to be able to tame per type.

You could think of it as FFXI's jug pets. Not every type of monster was accounted for with jug pets and you had to craft most of them. Tame allows you to "Charm" like in FFXI if you are in an area and plan on staying there. It also then lets you recall out that monster as a pet in the same manner that you could use a Jug Pet for an instance (like BST needed jug pets to do Abyssea/Dynamis). But the type of pet that can be saved could be reserved just for Coeurls or Marmots for Beast Soul as an example. It could also be likened to the Venomancer of Perfect World.