how i would do beastmaster

[KurohNeko]

first beast master would limit job

Paladin/Dark knight/Gun Breaker/ Warrior: one beast master has done acheivement for these mount they would have access to tame the pet of same skin or mobs of they family

beast tribes that give animal mount: would give access to tame they mount as pets

there two approach to beast master pet one could doing first the gave the younger of full grown pet this star wars galaxies approach.

or they the ideal that warrior of light abilities allow her to commune with beast as expansion to her gifts. let go this aproach with animal usualy you have show your an alpha to tame them. so let say the beast master must low they pet health to 25% to them they use ability let called commune with the beasts

size base roles

first small animal are dps squrril to monkey are ranger dps* only pet allow in cities to reduce lag

large base beast like lion tiger bear drake are melee dps.

gaint beast are tank base like mammoth t-rex tritops* will shrink to fit in dungeons that beast master runs can't have a gaint beast fill up whole dungeon now can we.

AI is trick one what should be basic off i suggest it be basic off the Scion AI i think SE should make so Squardon could doing dungeon with the players in the dungeons you don't need a new AI system when you got your Squardon sit and collect dust use them instead make a whole new AI system to run with players in much need dungeon use the Squardons add some fancy achievement to get them all way past stormblood add heros character to fill the role when need like trust system or have you call them for duties and aid in trust or have so once you unlock heavenward and storm blood and other expansion you use Squardon in same dungeons

Jesus Christ that is some horrible Engrish.

[Aluja89]

Jesus Christ that is some horrible Engrish.

Insult the content, not the person. You most likely don't speak a lick of their language, the fact they speak yours should be respected.

[Shriv]

I think having this as a real combat job would be preferable.

Melee dps using... dunno, a quarterstaff maybe, while sharing, dunno Rogue/ninja gear maybe? Looks workable.

I don't see the appeal of having that job taming special mount tho. We already has plenty for everyone,

For the tamable beasts, theycould be of various families where each beast family have a define role/skills/toolset. Specific beast within a family would be more for personal preferences/glam/look.

Besides basic combat skills, each family could provide some buffs (personal or group) associated with the beast family role.

They could also have one long recast strong skill or something in the same vein.

That pretty much sums up my views on what this job could be.

[Seraphor]

Non limited Beastmaster is never gonna happen guys. No more pet jobs. They learned their lesson with Summoner. Only hope of Beastmaster is if balance isn't an issue.

Limited Jobs are the best form of side content, no more Lord of Vermillion or stuff like that. I've got more use of out doing BLU savage than I have any other singular job class., and Masked Carnivale is 100 times more fun than Leap of Faith or Fishing. Why create minigames like Mahjong when you can have side content that involves combat?
We have 19 jobs now, adding one more is a 5% increase to available options for that content, adding another limited job is a 100% increase to available options for that content.

[Renalt]

If not an actual job...the only way I see Beastmaster being any fun is if they did the same thing WoW did in which you can capture and train monsters to fight other PCs monsters a la Pokemon.

[FoxyAreku]

first beast master would limit job

Sorry, you lost me here.

After seeing the travesty that is blue mage I'd rather they just not waste the time and resources then do more of that crap. There's no reason any job has to be a limited job.

For beastmaster you can just do it similar to taming pets as a hunter in WoW if they're uncreative. Even have your pet of choice be cosmetic if you have to-even that would be preferable to more limited job BS to me.

[Thaciscokidd]

The design for a "pet" class they could use would ironically be Reaper. Having there auto attack graphically be a tandem attack and have skills that the player character use and skills that the pet uses that fills a gauge and when that gauge is full either have a stronger Pet attack or stronger Tandem attacks. They wouldn't have had to worry about pet AI because the pet could technically be the weapon.

The main problem would be that the weapon, would the actually weapon have the flair, the pet have the flair, or both.

[Raikai]

The design for a "pet" class they could use would ironically be Reaper. Having there auto attack graphically be a tandem attack and have skills that the player character use and skills that the pet uses that fills a gauge and when that gauge is full either have a stronger Pet attack or stronger Tandem attacks. They wouldn't have had to worry about pet AI because the pet could technically be the weapon.

The main problem would be that the weapon, would the actually weapon have the flair, the pet have the flair, or both.

That would work... but to me it would feel just like a visual band-aid for the fact that XIV can't handle pets as a primary focus.

And by pets I mean, secondary entities that you need to micromanage alongside your character. In any mmorpg that is basically what makes a "pet class" for me. I'm not sure how fulfilled I would be if the pets were just animations from attacks... Not mentioning the fact that, unless they would develop something brand new, would be very likely not customizable - and some sort of pet diversity is also a key point for a pet class in my eyes.

[Cach]

a- This game hates pet classes with a passion
b- Limited jobs are throwaway content at best, a complete waste at worst
c- There's already a collect monsters activity, kinda... as far as I know its not popular.

Honestly? I would like some sort of update to the "chocobo-as-companion" system. I'm almost surprised its still hanging on, I wonder if new people even know it exists (there's no way in hell they're redoing all the bardings for other animals tho)

[Eorzean_username]

Please, no more "limited jobs". Ever.

I'd rather not see a Job in FFXIV at all than to have it get the gimmicky-junk death-sentence that Blue Mage did.

If true pets are too much for FFXIV's engine to handle, just make Beastmaster pets work like a customizable Automaton Queen / Living Shadow. At the end of day, people mostly want to see their cool tamed animals running around... directly commanding them can be sacrificed from the design.