Quote Originally Posted by Amas View Post
No, never.

Beastmaster was just about the most poorly implemented job in FFXI, and it depends far too much on pet AI, which is always terrible in MMOs.

No gimp WARs with crab jugs, please.

If they can't balance it (and SE can't) they shouldn't implement it at all.
Bst was one of the most fun jobs I ever leveled, true they sorta fail in normal partys but get a few bst together to group up and it is a whole side of the game you never seen before. That and it unlocked the ability to solo on all jobs.

Killing kirin with 18 crabs chasing him and taking down everything in CoP by just sitting down and watching a rank 52 mob in a 40cap zone rip the boss a new one was the true sight of a bst's power. The class was easily the most overpowered class in the game in many many situations no DD could deal more dmg then my 75bst with a level 80+mob 2hred.

If pet classes are added I am hoping bst and smn are the 2 that are added.


Edit: forgot to put in there they added the ability to choose your Tp attacks with pets. So AI is not that bad with them towards the later years of the game's life.