how i would do beastmaster

[MonsutaMan]

BLU can be a normal job.

However, the devs may have chose the open world learning, over a level up system of spells earned at a certain level/levels.

Reason being, it would have made BLU a lightning rod. Players may show up to groups without certain spells.....Unless they do a spell check or something.

BLU was a terrible choice for a limited job, and a waste of resources when it could have been BST....

As for BST, it is way overdue....and is what BLU should have been. Just so A$$ backwards to make BLU a monster hunter job, instead of the actual monster hunting job.

FFXIV gets away with alot, due to the IP. Take the IP away, it is Neverwinter.

BST is a job they cant screw up....It is SE proof. I mean, what are you gonna do? Let us only charm rats lol?

[Canadane]

Limited job shtick needs to die a horrible death.

Incorrect, they did a great job with BLU after it's lackluster release. They gave it a lot more content and things to do than if it were just another DPS job or whatever.
The extra stuff to do with it, plus the BLU-only raids are exceedingly fun and I look forward to the next limited job and what uniqueness it brings.

[Nihility]

If they were to do a Beastmaster job. Basically have two routes they could take it with a highly unlikely third

1) limited job like blue mage but also super crazy can do everything with no real limitations like blue mage
2) Sort of like how summoner is except a melee job with some personal melee attacks and skills to order the pet to do special things and release bigger monsters for flashier cooldown skills. Perhaps main pets could be like fairies where it's a choose your favorite skin type of deal
3) the unlikely would be #2 but still have open world exclusive classic beastmaster stuff

It has always been a pretty cool job concept even when it's not implemented super well

[Raikai]

The design for a "pet" class they could use would ironically be Reaper. Having there auto attack graphically be a tandem attack and have skills that the player character use and skills that the pet uses that fills a gauge and when that gauge is full either have a stronger Pet attack or stronger Tandem attacks. They wouldn't have had to worry about pet AI because the pet could technically be the weapon.

The main problem would be that the weapon, would the actually weapon have the flair, the pet have the flair, or both.

That would work... but to me it would feel just like a visual band-aid for the fact that XIV can't handle pets as a primary focus.

And by pets I mean, secondary entities that you need to micromanage alongside your character. In any mmorpg that is basically what makes a "pet class" for me. I'm not sure how fulfilled I would be if the pets were just animations from attacks... Not mentioning the fact that, unless they would develop something brand new, would be very likely not customizable - and some sort of pet diversity is also a key point for a pet class in my eyes.

[Savagelf]

i believe bst will be a good addition may more people like pet jobs

[BaconBits]

i believe bst will be a good addition may more people like pet jobs

[Vahlnir]

Stopped reading after "limit job".

[MellowMink]

I still think that Beastmaster should be added as a side job, probably doing something with the companion system to bring more life back into it, but that’s me.

[DontReadThis]

How I would do it:

• Make it a full job
  
• All the beast types are just different skins/glamours for your pet. They would all have the exact same damage abilities with the same potencies, just with different names or animations for flavor purposes
  
• Allow you to use your beast mounts as your pet

This preserves the flavor of the job without introducing any balance concerns, such as with BLU