Beastmaster a wasted opportunity

[Raikai]

Beastmaster could have been FFXIV's ranger a phys range dps with a whip or crossbow with the ability to summon/call animals for damage or buffs or whatever.

This game handles pet gameplay really poorly. The animals would need to be baked in animations like RPR's avatar, but then, it completely defeats the purpose of a pet job where the selling point is the capacity of micromanaging more than 1 instance of character - plus we'd miss pet choice, which is also anothe selling point of a classic MMORPG pet handler class. Unless they have big plans to address that, I don't think this kind of job would be easily featured in the main cast.

Said that, I think BST is the perfect candidate for a limited job because they can fabricate an independent pet battle system for it, like WoW did with their previously cosmetic pets.