First look at Beastmaster

[Arrius]

And after 2 years of waiting since its reveal we find out the big beastmaster update is... do ARR dungeons with npcs and afk in limsa with animals? Somehow it's exactly what you've come to expect from this game and yet still boggles the mind that this was created.

They would afk in Limsa either way to flex their monsties?

[SweetPete]

They would afk in Limsa either way to flex their monsties?

Nah, I’ll be in Old Sharlayan.

[Fawkes]

It looks like there are abilities at level 8, 18, and 22, the ones at 8 and 18 seem like ordering the pet to do a move (the coeurl can do blaster and charged whisker, the chimera has flame breath and freezing roar), I'm not sure what the lvl 22 thing is, it says "beast skin" for both of them, maybe it changes based on mob type. They also have typed auto attack damage similar to BLU spells.

Also it looks like you can choose if it's small, medium, or large? And there's a thing next to that that might be a button to pick reskins?

[Iscah]

Also it looks like you can choose if it's small, medium, or large?

I assumed that's just a statement of how big the creature is.

[Sunhwapark]

I heard you can take a few of the animals into dungeons with you, or something along those lines? It sounds like squadrons but with animals.
Hopefully the collection of the animals isn't something that can be completed within a few hours of gameplay.

[Fawkes]

I assumed that's just a statement of how big the creature is.

Well to the left of that it says 外見設定 which I think is "Appearance Settings", and the thing to the right of that says　見た目の変更　which is like "Appearance Changes" which is what I'm assuming is a way to pick different skins. I could be wrong though, I don't actually speak Japanese.

[Fawkes]

Well they got rid of that part so I guess I was wrong!

[Ryvick]

Might have been some test only text, they also removed text from next to "Master's Bestiary" and the little magnifying glass next to the sort options.

[Iscah]

The patch site is up, and it seems our job trainer is a Miqo'te. It would be nice if we get some more lore on a specific tribe or two.

[AlliciaCapulet]

I’m still disappointed with Beastmaster.

It was announced more than two years ago, and we still haven’t really seen anything meaningful about it. What makes it worse is that Dawntrail hasn’t exactly delivered extra content overall, and Blue Mage updates were put on hold—only for Beastmaster to receive very little in return.

A much better approach would have been something like:

7.1: Beastmaster released at level 50
7.2: Increased to level 60
7.3: Increased to level 70
7.4: Increased to level 80
7.5: Increased to level 90

If it had been handled like that, I would have been genuinely excited for the job. It would have felt like ongoing content throughout the expansion.

But as it stands, after more than two years of waiting, we’re only getting level 50—and at the cost of no Blue Mage updates. At this point, my hype for Beastmaster is basically gone.

And let’s be honest, it probably won’t even release with 7.5 itself, but rather 7.51 or 7.55. Either way, it will likely take a week or two at most to finish everything up to level 50, and then there’ll be nothing left to do while waiting for 8.0.

For me, it’s simply too little, far too late.