Beastnaster feedback post-release

[Asako]

Cooldowns are too long, gauge fills too slowly.
The level 50 moves might as well not exist as gauge doesn't carry over between Crucible battles.
Most minions aren't really useful.

Currently its 123 -> pressing your beastskill every 30s followed by corresponding element. Pressing Self Destruct and resummoning when you need immediate aoe damage.

There is a bit of strategy in picking and combining elements for the fights themselves, but it really doesn't help the combat as its just far too slow with the lack of moves.

Personally I think we should be able to borrow and store skills from all 3 of our mobs with them regenerating their 'release' every 30s. This would allow us to pick better loadouts for offence / defence. Either that or just reduce the cooldown on summon, if they really want us to rotate them more frequently.

[TeresaFortell]

This took THREE YEARS to release... and outside of a mindless grind in Crucible there's nothing to even do with after a single day of leveling and collecting pets. What a waste.

If we take what Mr Ozma said at face value, they spent only about a year developing BST, since they had to scrap the past two years of progress and redesign the whole job.

[Gwenkatsu]

If we take what Mr Ozma said at face value, they spent only about a year developing BST, since they had to scrap the past two years of progress and redesign the whole job.

"We worked on it for 2 years without ever assessing its quality" is not really a good excuse.
Try it with you own boss, if you don't believe me

[hydralus]

"We worked on it for 2 years without ever assessing its quality" is not really a good excuse.
Try it with you own boss, if you don't believe me

Do we know that's the reason why they had to assign another dev to it?

[jomas_45]

I find the memorisation very difficult, especially given I'm on controller and can't have the tooltips appear as I click stuff.

[SarriaKadijah]

Begging for some role actions, especially second wind, bloodbath, and/or arm's length. Even a small stun would be nice. It really feels like it's missing something for healing/defense, especially if we can't have our beasties tank or heal for us (especially at lower levels). Not to mention I'd love a ranged attack that doesn't have a 60s cooldown (yikes).

Also really could use loadouts. Having sets you can put together before and then more easily swap would be really helpful for dealing with mobs (hit them with all the status effects) vs bosses (more focus on healing/defense/dps). This will get higher in need as more monsters are added to the bestiary, as trying to remember what you want for a given situation will get more and more complicated.

I do wish the level cap had been higher. Only 50 feels so limiting. But I guess that just means more to look forward to eventually.

[SweetPete]

My only gripe with BST is that our pets don’t have roles. I wish we had tank/dps/healer/support roles for our pets.

At least for soloing dungeons this will be so much better.

[whatsup]

I am playing BST and so far no complaints by me.

Why so many complaints with new jobs and content? SMH

As with anything new there is always room to grow. If it is easier content you want, then maybe another game or something else that is easier? I mean come on, easy would be freakin BORING! I am loving having something that a brain is needed for in making a decision rather than on where you stand and when all the time. I can play it when I want to rather than a predetermined time that is agreed upon, with other players, that I can't do even though I would like to.

IMO it is new .... give it some time before pouring on complaints and play it for awhile.

To the developers .... keep on doing what you do. Some of us aren't so critical about new things to do. \o/

[Ankhira]

I am playing BST and so far no complaints by me.

Why so many complaints with new jobs and content? SMH

This may be a crazy concept, but people have different tastes and opinions. Shocking, I know.

[Ankhira]

Do we know that's the reason why they had to assign another dev to it?

Not sure how true this is, but I read somewhere there were some issues the previous dev couldn't resolve and so Yoshi-P asked Ozma to step in and he couldn't really do turn based which is what the original BST was going to be about so he changed it. Don't know how true this is but that's what I read on some interview thread on the XIV reddit.