While i like the idea of ffxiv exclusive class, i believe there isn't anything exclusive in ffxiv tbh. Except machinist if i quessed correctly. That cuts more interesting ideas by half.

Beastmaster seems a good monk-like class, but on a longer run, we don't need another monk-like class. Actually, at this point, it is very hard to make unique rotations and whole gameplay for one full class. That said, if a beastmaster were to resemble monk more than a little, i would rather have another pet (oh god no please...) using beastmaster.

Giving up on level cap raise is best way to get bored with a class before you experience all features 4.0 will provide. Thou i would love it to happen. Having much greater impact on my class build sounds like a dream. Especially, that for current moment we have absolutely no choice at all. If we were to copare to DRKs at 60, only melds and names would make them different. Thats not what i believe it should look like!