Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
...Or the devs could...you know...design Beastmaster in its own FFXIV twist like every other non-limited job, like Summoner for example, which is actually fun in this game unlike its certain other FF MMO counterpart.
And people are complaining about the twist they put on SMN. Most of them are SMNs. Again, I am not saying any of you are wrong, but history shows, this will not end well.

If they take away charm (Like they did with FFXI), BST is now a lesser version of SMN. FFXI's BST is constantly compared to a weaker SMN. The gist of BST was taming/catching wild creatures. If you take that away, we have SMN 2.0. If you keep it, we have a balance problem.

How do you stop BST from taming everything in group content? Not allow them to charm? Then, that takes away BST most unique trait, hence it is now SMN 2.0.

Easier to make it a solo job, imo of course.