Beastmaster as a tank.

[Decanthym]

I'm not exactly sure what other opinions are, but I would love to see the beastmaster in this game but as a tank. I'm usually conflicted with MMO's because I love the pet system classes but always want to play as a tank and those roles are usually dps. I think if done right the beastmaster could work well as a tank. Having the pets do dps or status buffs while you tank would make soloing a bit more interesting and of course tanks (in my opinion) tend to be fun to play in parties. Thoughts?

[Koltik]

If your concern is having a buddy to solo with, you can do a quest at 30 which allows your chocobo to fight with you. I think tanks having a dedicated pet would be really awkward.

[Englesyn]

Oooo, I like the idea to have the pet as a damage dealer and have the player the tank. I like it because it's different in the respect of how most classes with pets work. It wouldn't be difficult to do that either, because on raid fights the abilities that the beast-master would use keep aggro would be coming from the the beast, while the Beast-master is doping defensive cool-downs and such (just make all pet damage re-directed to the master). I also wouldn't want the pet to be the tank because movement fights would be horrid to try to control a pet.

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

i was a BST in 11 and this idea sounds nice, we already got a DD pet class (SMN) and a healer pet class (SCH). a tank pet class where the pet uses enemity+ and stuns abilities to support the BST sound appealing. also we need more tank classes.. to many DD.


on a side note, i hope they dont implement jugs.. i hope they do something like CHARM this mobs and level it with you, this way you can have a pet of your liking. also with player housing you would be able to have a "stable" where you can store you BST pets.

[NovaLevossida]

Man, quit turning my favorite damage dealer classes* from XI into tanks. First WAR, now BST. In all seriousness, I don't mind WAR being a tank here, but I'd prefer to see BST as a DPS job. That said, a proposed system of pet DPS and BST tank is kind of cool, but given how they've implemented WAR compared to PLD so far, I don't have too much faith that it would turn out effective.

*BST was, sort of, a damage dealer... when people let you play with them. In all seriousness, did BST in regular endgame, soloed it to 75, used it some in merit parties over my WAR and MNK, and did endgame with a pet LS too.

[Ehayte]

It would be cool to have the player only have access to avoidance and mitigation abilities and cool downs, and have your pet produce all of your enmity and damage. Kind of like having a spirit companion that would link off of its created enmity to you. Probably just having the pet stance dance between pure dps, balanced dps/enmity, pure enmity, then like a cool-down stance that would give you extra mitigation or a self-heal or a TP refresh or MP refresh. Something like the player's main combo would be:

1- Channel: increase pet damage by 50% for 7.5 seconds
2- Spirit Link: increase pet damage by 25% for 5 seconds (stacks with Channel), Combo (Channel) - increase player dodge rate by 25% for 10 seconds
3- Duality: increase pet damage by 35% for 2.5 seconds (stacks with Spirit Link), Combo (Spirit Link) - decrease income damage to player by 50% for 2.5 seconds

[Kal-El]

Just have the beastmaster riding some bad ass mount during battle. Taking hits like a boss!

Riding something similar to Hydra into Coil. That would be fun =D

[NovaLevossida]

Just have the beastmaster riding some bad ass mount during battle. Taking hits like a boss!

Riding something similar to Hydra into Coil. That would be fun =D

Ok, I'm officially supporting mounted BST tanks now.

[Decanthym]

I like the idea of having the DPS pets to to tame more than a chocobo. The mounted BST is probably the greatest idea ever haha.

[Gamemako]

I actually like (and partially designed but never finished) the idea of Beastmaster as a tank. I agree; I don't think a pure pet tank is wise for control reasons. It is difficult to use a pet to avoid attacks. You could tank most of the trash, but when you hit Qarn or so, you'd be a liability. SCH is bad enough, and that pet isn't in direct AoE range. If you want a pet tank, you will want to use the pet to augment the player tank, not the other way around.