[Suggestion] Beastmaster Job? Companions?

[SophieKitty]

Heyy!
I'm suggesting a Job to be added. The Beastmaster, which captures monsters.
Those monsters could be leveled like the current Chocobo-companion.

[Why would you like to see this in FFXIV?]:
I love games where I can capture monsters and level them up AND I love FF games, if those two would be connected into one game, it would be the ultimate game for me!

[How would it work in game?]:
You use the Beastmaster job skill "Capture" on a monster with critical HP and have a chance to capture it. From then on you can level the monster up (like the Chocobo-companion). Monsters cannot be captured if they are above your own level, but if you capture it, the Monster-companion starts at LV1.

The companions would only have 1 skilltree instead of the Chocobo-companions 3 skilltrees.

[SophieKitty]

-So, level up a "Morbol", get "Bad Breath" at LV10, while the rest of the levels/skills would give stat-ups or weaker skills like "Gastric Juice".
-Level up a "Chimera", on LV5 it gets an Ability which randomly casts "Lion's Breath", "Ram's Breath" or "Dragon's Breath" while on LV10 it gets an ability which randomly casts "Ram's Voice" or "Dragon's Voice".

The monsters attacks are based on it's category/family, the stats and looks may differ based on the one you caught.

The Beastmaster's skills would be, "Healing of the Companion" and various "Companion stat increases", but little to none attacks, it's DPS depends fully on the Companion creature.

[What weapon would this class use?]:
As usual in FF games, the Beastmaster would use a "Whip".

[Anything else you have on your mind?]:
The Beastmaster Jobs prerequisite could be the Chocobo-companion quest.

Hope to see this in game some day.

[AlphaFox]

While I admit I would love to see this, I see it being overly complicated for there liking, I assume if we do get a Beastmaster it would only be 1 monster with already pre-set skills involved, unless they go the route of SMN and allow it a Tank/Ranged/Melee pet and that being it.

[SophieKitty]

Well I don't know, they wouldn't have to change the models or anything, just add a few skills, and if it was based on what i wrote, they would add 1 set of pre-set skills for Morbol-family, 1 for the Coblyn-family and so on.
UI doesn't require so much work.
I think the hardest job for them would be creating the armors and weapons.

[LilithUlNamo]

Nice post Sophiekitty I would also like to see a job like the Beastmaster in FFXIV.

Monster capture would bring a lot of extra content to the game for players to sink time into, with such a huge amount of monsters players could collect, will give players a big reason to play FFXIV more and promote the game to those who enjoy monster collecting games.

The idea of the family of monsters is great, making the implementation of monster collecting a lot easier for the development team and with the fact that the game already has many monsters and abilities already in the game, adding them to be collected by players will take a lot less time to be implemented.

My idea of a monster family which could be used, would be "Scorpion" which could have skills like "Flying Press" which would be a slow targeted jump ability, "Deadly Thrust" a high damaging single target ability and "Hiss" which would spawn extra Scorpions temporary.

[Keridwyn]

As much as I would love to see a whip wielding Beastmaster I think it may be a good bit longer. I would rather them wait and do it right than end up with another SMN style issue.

[Inosaska]

They have enough issues with summoner. I can't imagine them adding another pet job to the game anytime soon.

[Uielyave]

I want BST so muuuuch. Screw Blue Mage, BST plz.

[Reinha]

I would like a pet job where the pet doesn't have it's own abilities. Kind of like MCH but with tamable beasts. I think I would also prefer having the beasts share my level automatically.

[Savagelf]

i like beast master to be dps whip is perfect

suggest would be for pets

drake
bear
hawk
dinosaurs
tiger
coursel
lion
raptor
bugs
scorpid
you have all them start out at babies as well be level one so as the gain lvl the grown. you also draw on like for climates that they like fight in

my earnly post suggest use the island of hullbreaker isles