Beastnaster feedback post-release

[Aidorouge]

I'll probably level this to 50 and get what beasts I can without having to do dungeons or crucible and then probably never touch it again.

I know I'll get eviscerated for this opinion but I don't care, I'm so tired of the current trend of all the battle content being for raiders only.

Nah, the complaints are valid and that's my plan as well; Do what I can that's actually doable for me, and then abandon it. I'm never doing the Crucible, and I'm not doing content that requires full groups for an allegedly "solo content job".

I'm probably going to run out of things to do within the first week while hardcore players get to have all the fun again.

[CCheshire]

TBH, I'm more disappointed with the choice for the tamed mobs like we're missing a lot of fun and cute animals like moles, rats, jackals, and goats, bugs, but I know we can have the Lost Sheep so not all is lost. I know they might add more creatures in the future, but it was sad to walk up and test on mobs that sounded cool and then there's no way to create pact

[Metaphasic]

- The job is not well explained. It took a google AI chat to understand, and even that made numerous mistakes until finally getting it right.
- The crucible sucks! I didn't even know how to assign a pet to the horn slot dialog. Then I died once while trying the first room. Then, the bone guy raised his sheild and I couldn't damage him. I will never step foot into it again.
- In the overworld, it's simple and hella fun! But that end-game reeks. I will never do it. Maybe abandon the job and go back to Picto.

[RedHeaven]

I'm somewhat confused as to why the familiars can't tank for us in duties other than crucible or the overworld.

Seems like it would make a lot of sense to give them Snarl/Provoke, especially with the larger bulkier ones like behemoth/hydra etc.

A Shirk-like action would be nice too for our Beastmaster to direct enmity to the familiars.

[Reimmi]

- The job is not well explained. It took a google AI chat to understand, and even that made numerous mistakes until finally getting it right.
- The crucible sucks! I didn't even know how to assign a pet to the horn slot dialog. Then I died once while trying the first room. Then, the bone guy raised his sheild and I couldn't damage him. I will never step foot into it again.
- In the overworld, it's simple and hella fun! But that end-game reeks. I will never do it. Maybe abandon the job and go back to Picto.

You barely even engaged with the job and went straight to using AI to try to solve it for you
what am i even reading, i think humanity might be cooked.

[hydralus]

So far it's been pretty great. There's tons of little optimizations you can do, like two strong tempered release beasts + both parting blow followed by a beast whose auto attack is the boss's vulnerability. Then there's the challenge runs where it takes like 17K points or more to get legendary so you need to not use items, use 3 pets, have 10 crucible gear and 10 items, have none of them die, and not get hit by anything. Heck you can just spam the second floor to get gear upgrades if you really want them.

[MsMisato]

You barely even engaged with the job and went straight to using AI to try to solve it for you
what am i even reading, i think humanity might be cooked.

Imma take a stab and think they are saying, the in game instructions was pretty bad in explaining how to play the job. CBU3 particularly likes to overcomplicate things. While it does talk about the battle horn in game, it really doesn't explain how to assign a beast to it.

[hydralus]

Imma take a stab and think they are saying, the in game instructions was pretty bad in explaining how to play the job. CBU3 particularly likes to overcomplicate things. While it does talk about the battle horn in game, it really doesn't explain how to assign a beast to it.

I suppose it could be confusing. The quest text says, "Open the Master's Bestiary from the main menu, and assign the Cu Sith to your battlehorn via the subcommand." I am unsure whether the character menu is considered the "main" menu.

[Metaphasic]

Imma take a stab and think they are saying, the in game instructions was pretty bad in explaining how to play the job. CBU3 particularly likes to overcomplicate things. While it does talk about the battle horn in game, it really doesn't explain how to assign a beast to it.

No. I get the class. It's fun as hell. It was in the crucible, where you had to assign them again, using ITs format. Apparently, you have to left click the beast. For whatever reason, I instinctively only right-clicked to bring up an options menu. Never thought about trying left clicks. Anyway, it was still a fail. Got past the first room with about 3% life. I'm too old and have had had strokes. So, nah, never going back. The point was, even the AI didn't know the answer and had me going in loops. Not worth it.

[Quintalian]

Hey. I haven't been back to the Lodestone forums in actual years. I should've posted my thought here a long time ago. But I patiently waited to see how Beastmaster would turn out. Now that I've had some time to actually play it, I have thoughts.

So. A long time ago, during the first Las Vegas Fan Fest, there was a comment from Yoshi-P during a dev panel talking about maybe adding your Magitek Armor as another Companion. You know, a summonable battle companion in the same style as your Company Chocobo. Well, that ended up not happening. A bit disappointing.

I always thought, hey, wouldn't it be great if we DID get new Companions at some point? Since we didn't have a proper pet job (and SMN's Carbuncle and SCH's fairy got gradually less pet-like -- even MCH's turret got phased out) it felt like the Companion system was as good as we were gonna get, but nothing new got added to it. Why not add some options, like a moogle, dragonlet like the Dragoon pet in FFXI, a mammet like Puppetmaster had, or others? Since they'd be Companions, any job could use them, so a dedicated pet job wouldn't be needed!

But eventually we got the BST reveal, and just recently it became a real job. It seemed to have potential despite being a limited job, a fun aside to mess around with in the meantime until Evercold. I did have fun with it right away, I wanted to go fill in the bestiary. I like how fast it can level, so far. I'm not super into the skillchain system although the Inner Compass does make how it works more plainly visible. The Borrow skill feels kinda bad, honestly, I keep forgetting to use it because it feels like the pet should be doing that one. And I still need to level more to try the rest.

But the reason I felt compelled to come back after so long and actually make this post is the Crucible of the Unbroken. Well, guess what, it's me, I'm the broken. I vehemently dislike this mode. I do not wish to engage with this ever again in its current form. I did not have fun, so if that was the goal, I feel it has failed, at least for a confirmed casual like myself. I know a lot of work was put into it but the whole thing feels needlessly complex and overwrought. With BLU's extra content I can grasp it a bit more readily. This just feels like a thing I don't want to subject myself to going forward.

I really wish the whole idea of BST was just, "you can have a pet of the monster you might like" and that was about the gist of it. I do hope more varieties arrive later, especially a mammet since we're probably never getting Puppetmaster. But Crucible is just really deflating if that's the goal of BST going forward. That's my thoughts.