Will Beastmaster appear in any Endwalker content patches?

[aveyond-dreams]

Even if it’s true that BLU has its own team, that team could be doing something else.

Exactly this. Since BLU's team is apparently focused on making...animations? I suppose they could be redirected to something like new primal glamours for Summoner so that we don't have to wait until 7.0 to finally break free of the Ifrit/Titan/Garuda trinity.

So... charming random monsters with diversity of traits, collecting and placing them in pens and training them, the whole she-bang. That's a little more complicated than random rangers with generic pets with almost nothing unique or interesting about them.

If you think that SE will put in the work to code a variety of pets with different AI and abilities for Beastmaster then you I would like to remind you how many of Blue Mage's spells are the exact same potency with just different animations. I would rather get a full job with 1 or 2 decent pets that can be called for a short duration like Summoner's demis than 100+ useless recycled mobs with nothing functionally unique about them.

[MellowMink]

I would like to remind you how many of Blue Mage's spells are the exact same potency with just different animations.

It's a minority of the total spells, and as someone else already pointed out before, how many of those spells that you're referring to additionally have the exact same range and radius attributes, not just non-elemental effects? Very few of the spells are literally the exact same in terms of things besides animations.

[Auryan]

It's a minority of the total spells, and as someone else already pointed out before, how many of those spells that you're referring to additionally have the exact same range and radius attributes, not just non-elemental effects? Very few of the spells are literally the exact same in terms of things besides animations.

This is par the usual with discourse when it comes to BLU. The same tired talking points get thrown around endlessly.

[Auryan]

If you think that SE will put in the work to code a variety of pets with different AI and abilities for Beastmaster then you I would like to remind you how many of Blue Mage's spells are the exact same potency with just different animations. I would rather get a full job with 1 or 2 decent pets that can be called for a short duration like Summoner's demis than 100+ useless recycled mobs with nothing functionally unique about them.

That's not what I'm suggesting at all. Why create codes for pet AI when you can simply reuse the systems that are already in place. Repurpose the now defunct egi-system and give pets an aggressive, defensive and passive stance. And while we're repurposing unused assets, why not just throw in all the plethora of monster abilities that are in-game? Need a support/healing pet? Charm and train a Mandragora for Photosynthesis (Regen) and Leaf Dagger (Poison). Need a tanking pet? Get yourself a Crab friend and have it use Metallic Body for defense. You get the gist of it. The point is you don't have to take ridiculous suggestions like yours when there are plenty of sensible alternative avenues.

And why reference Hunters from WoW as being a good iteration on the Beastmaster trope when you have a disdain for "recycled and functionally non-unique mobs" and that kind of being their entire deal in that game?