Beastmaster Class Lore

[Kesey]

But are limited jobs really that popular to warrant a 2nd?

I say no.

But Beastmaster can be repurposed to tank. Make their lore be about controlling monsters on the battlefield to keep your allies safe and that only evil Beastmasters enslave monsters to make war. They have a shield already too, so it's not a far stretch.

Granted this negates the whole, have a pet do half the fighting thing, but look at Summoner, they aren't going to do another pet class. Yoshi-p said pet classes are hard to balance too. I feel this is the only way Beastmaster will work for this game is as a tank.

[Cleretic]

But are limited jobs really that popular to warrant a 2nd?

Difficult to say, since with only one limited job it's impossible to separate 'limited job popularity' from 'Blue Mage popularity'. But going by achievement stats, 62% of people have maxed out Blue Mage, and 32% of people have completed thirty Masked Carnivale stages. For comparison, Extreme completion outside of solo-unsync-ables seems to hover in the 45%-60% range, Savages tend to hover around 24% from the end of their tier's currency to until they become unsync-able, and in terms of jobs, the level 90 achievements tend to be at around 45% with some outliers on both edges (Monk is lowest at 33%, Reaper barely beats out Conjurer as highest at 51%). I was going to check the level 70 job achievements, but those are all over the place to a degree where they're clearly influenced by other factors.

I dunno how much effort goes into a limited job compared to any of those, but it sounds like just the job alone would be at least as popular as regular jobs, and a Masked Carnivale equivalent would be more popular than Savage raiding, but not Extremes.

So, yeah, probably worth it!