Beastmaster class is underwhelming

[Xerosleep]

Beastmaster actually proves Yoshi P is either a liar or clueless, as he said EW's focus was Solo and DT's focus was large scale, you that MMO feels. Yet here we are with a limited job that is mainly solo and just feels lonely to play ie not very mmo like so.....

[SkankyRoe]

Considering 90% of the job's content is the Crucible, I don't think you can really have an educated opinion on the job having not done it.

It's perfectly fine to not like it, but that's like saying, I dunno, you don't like Black Mage because it's really repetitive in Halatali.

More like 99% of the job's content is Crucible. "Solo job" can't solo anything of the equivalent level, and there's a clear push for players to purchase many of the beasts via Crucible gourds rather than dealing with the opaque capture mechanic. It's very very VERY obvious that Crucible was designed first and then BST was hastily slapped together just to fulfill the requirement of having a limited job. Honestly it feels like malicious compliance from the dev.

[VictorSpoils]

Counterpoint: perhaps the fact that the job is literally bland and does nothing outside of the crucible is actually a negative design point especially when it comes to onboarding new players trying it out.

literally™

[TeresaFortell]

My feeling is that Beastmaster was designed around Crucible, not the other way around. As a result, all the restrictions you see on the job and its monotonous 123 combo are only there to balance it in Crucible.

[Reimmi]

The pet does like no damage. for a pet job, you'd think alot of the damage would be the pet, not actions you press on a boring combo loop

[Kozh]

Crucible aside, yes I am also surprised at how ordinary the rotation is. When I play BLU, I can sort of see why it's a limited job. Yes there's optimal "rotation" and BiS spells, but overall at least the job feels... unique. Meanwhile when I unlock and level up BST, all I can think of is "this could've been normal job". Obviously there would be balancing issue to think of, but imo it's not as severe as BLU.

[Humor]

They really should have brought back the oldschool ways, where each monster/companion has their own separate hotbar.

Again it's basically an optional class, so no one is really "Required" to learn it, and it would pay homage to what used to be the SCH, and SMN before they got r-ped.

For as long as they had BST cooking, they put almost zero thought into how actual players would perceive the class.

Sometimes "Player friendly", and IN THIS CASE (limited jobs), is a very terrible idea.

[0blivion]

Half of this thread needs to do Crucible and come back later to actually give some informed judgement lol. The amount of CC you gotta stack on the Ymir fight, especially on lower ranks, is genuinely hilarious.

[YumieYumiki]

Half of this thread needs to do Crucible and come back later to actually give some informed judgement lol. The amount of CC you gotta stack on the Ymir fight, especially on lower ranks, is genuinely hilarious.

I did some of the crucible. I didn't enjoy it, so that's that.
I guess it's a good class to clown around with pets in limsa.

I think the reason it took so long might be that they just couldn't find a way to make it fun (game idea that sounds cool on paper but doesn't really work out so well in practice is a tale as old as time), but since they announced it they had to release it anyway.

[RaionKansen]

Crucible content slaps.