Do we even need a BST job?

[MonsutaMan]

No....not in my opinion.

I made a few threads about BST over the years, but I started to wonder...... what if they simply expanded the Chocobo companion to include other fauna?
(Aware this probably has already been mentioned)

Basically, you learn the ability to charm creatures from an NPC on any job.

I am a BST vet in XI and all.....but why waste resources on something you are not very good at lol?

I feel BST as a limited job is a waste of resources/time. Unlike BLU, having an animal fight by your side is already in-game, thus does not require a whole A$$ job for a system the majority loathes.

In a nutshell, add a monster log to the main game. Use whatever monsters you caught in place of your chocobo companion. Add an actual job in place of BST; which is more of a mechanic that already exist.

I will land my plane there......

[True-to-Caesar]

I just want to switch the chocobo to one of my retainer. Would be much more cool imo.

[JamieRose]

It would be something more for me to do. Nothing left to level, I don't feel comfortable doing savage and I just haven't been able the muster the motivation to smacking harvesting points for hours on end.

[Kranel_San]

I just want to switch the chocobo to one of my retainer. Would be much more cool imo.

Job: Retainer master (RTN)
Description: Same as BST but instead of animals, it's retainers!

[Burmecia]

I made a few threads about BST over the years, but I started to wonder...... what if they simply expanded the Chocobo companion to include other fauna?
(Aware this probably has already been mentioned)

Made very unsuccessful thread about this idea, or how i called it "companion glamour" some time ago. Would still love to have it
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[Midareyukki]

No, but I guess it'd be some other thing to do + some people definitely want it for nostalgia's sake. Nothing wrong with that.

[Soge01]

I'd like my golem Magitek Reaper from ARR as a customizable companion.

[Connor]

Yoshi-P specifically said they will not do any more classic FF jobs in XIV. So that means we’re never getting Beastmaster (or Geomancer lol). XIV will only have ‘unique’ jobs like Reaper from now on

[VeyaAkemi]

Yoshi-P specifically said they will not do any more classic FF jobs in XIV. So that means we’re never getting Beastmaster (or Geomancer lol). XIV will only have ‘unique’ jobs like Reaper from now on

See, I am still wondering how many asterisks there are attached to that statement, take SGE for example, Sage is a classic FF Job on paper, but FFXIV's depiction of Sage is completely unique, at least in terms of aesthetics, likewise, things like "Beastmaster" are... incredibly generic by itself, it is a concept present in too many fantasy settings to count, which is to say, there are too many ways to give it unique spin behind it.

...which is to say nothing of him outright changing his mind about it, let's be real it has happened before, a lot, and dev sttatements in this game are loose guidelines at best.

[ThaCa]

Just make Beastmaster a pokemon minigame. It would be massively better than stuff like Triple Triad even if they somehow made it really scuffed.