Please beastmaster cross fingers

[Leonesaurus]

I have one ideal solution that people may or may not be sold on. But lets just play with a hypothetical scenario here and say that BST is announced and it'll be a melee pet class, with a balanced set of abilities and summons, similar to Summoner. Except, you have the ability to glamour your pet.

So, for example, pet A has 3 attacks. Pet A is a dodo. Well, what if you don't care for a dodo? Simple. Change it to a raptor instead to fit your style. Game still keeps the same 3 abilities, balance is kept in place, and so on and so forth. To obtain this raptor, you have to challenge it and charm it to be able to glamour it. Once glamoured, they're yours to keep. They're purely for aesthetics and enable BST's an extra step to customize thier character and job.

For huge monsters that people prefer, just size them down (malboros, ogres, drakes, etc.).

I know it's not what people want, but I figured with reality in check, this is the best case scenario if it's ANYTHING remotely like how Summoner is.

[MartaDemireux]

I theorycrafted a Flayer class leading into the Beastmaster and Blue Mage jobs (link in my signature if you care to see it). I basically gave it whips and their pets have short casting times so that they can swap pets on the fly to do various things or to compensate for various changes in battle. No charming since that wouldn't work here really. I gave them 6 total pets that they would unlock via job quests, one for each Bloodborn class (crab, wolf, firefly, raptor, funguar, vulture). Each pet has its own special focus for abilities such as the crab having the best tanking stats, the wolf being good single target melee DPS and the firefly being a magical ranged DPS. Would love a BST that uses many pets in a single battle.

[Savagelf]

i also like drake in your system as pets

[Sivara]

I loved BST in FFXI, and I enjoyed Hunter in WoW as well, though it wasn't anywhere NEAR as fun. FFXI-BST was just pure adrenaline-fueled heart-pounding craziness. Running around throwing weaker monsters at a bigger monster, sending the message that YOU are in control of your surroundings...at least until something resists charm, Tame is down, and something eats you alive. Using the charm-move-release-repeat technique to work your way through an area loaded with aggro was like strolling through a dungeon and befriending every critter along the way. "Hi! Nice to meet you! Let's go for a walk. OK, gotta go! See ya!" Or, if it wasn't charmable, you could just distract it for a bit with something that was charmable or a jug pet.

The FFXI style may never work in FFXIV, but as long as whatever they do is implemented well, I'll be happy. I wouldn't even mind if they took a page from WoW (yeah, I know, but hear me out) and let you tame the monster of your choice as a pet (or have more than one pet, because it's good to have options for different situations as well as for aesthetic appeal) and develop it as you level, much like the chocobo companion.

[NyneAlexander]

Why would anyone want BST in this game? I mean, if you reeeeeally want to cast "heavy" on everything, you can just level THM and use blizzard 1.

[Swagcity]

I will probably subscribe if they implemented a bst or nin job; however, I am not fond of the game mechanics and dungeon obsession; hence I may play around for a month or less. Do not expect to contentiously play for an extended period of time (Months).

[Swagcity]

Summon esque pets

Give the master whips^^

Said this in multiple threads; i do not want controllable pets whom stay out akin to a pt member. Uncreative smn design? No thanks. Ill just take a flashy move from a large monster^^ Just my humble preference; I do not want to see XI all over again XD.

[Limecat]

I like my BSTing as much as anyone in XI, but I'm not sure it could translate well at all to this game. I see it likely coming out as just a physical version of SMN, without DoTs. If that happened, it'd effectively be nothing but flavor text.

[Lunavi]

I want PUP. Or a necromancer class.. Both really works well

[Noshpan]

I'm more interested in seeing the introductions of the Dark Knight and a stealth-based class (let's call it Thief) first. To a lesser extent, Musketeer as well. But everybody has their pet classes that they would love to see added.