Do we even need a BST job?

[CaptainLagbeard]

Beastmaster as a regular class would likely just repurpose old SMN gameplay, back when the Egis actually did things other than sit around looking (questionably) pretty.


Though as a limited job it would very likely just be a pokemon styled "minigame"... Which probably could also mess around in regular content much like BLU can...

[Equitable_Remedy]

Need? No.

Want? Also no.

[Absimiliard]

Yes.
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[Zebraoracle]

I just am personally vehemently against the concept of limited jobs and would prefer to see them as actual jobs with their minigames attached as side content. Not being able to take one of your favorite jobs in the series into content that's relevant (current extremes, savage, and ultimates) is a massive feels bad man.

Sadly, if they implemented BST, it'd likely have an AI companion which is going to be jank af.

Something I could see potentially causing less jank would be something like your character doesn't have a pet, but instead takes on an aspect of a beast, like the silhouette of the creature kind of appears on your character, and you gain abilities appropriate to that creature, and the silhouette participates in the actions.

So like, say you aspect into coeurl. You get a basic claw attack. Your character does whatever animation, maybe it imitates clawing, and the coeurl silhouette also does some sort of claw animation.

I don't know, this is just off the top of my head and definitely still has issues probably, but it still fits the theme of a beastmaster kind of. Considering there have been different versions of beast masters in the series that don't all work the same (FF5 beastmaster was basically a summoner), I wouldn't mind something like this. Again though, this is just me trying to think of an idea that avoids the jank of an AI companion.

[Nihility]

I imagine beastmaster would function pretty well as a something of a melee summoner.
Ultimately the pets would just be like a mode change. Aoe pet, single target pet, etc

Everything is so homogenous at this point kind of having trouble imagining how jobs would even stand out side from aesthetics though.

As a limited jobs it seems super lame.
What would it even be? Just pick some monster to catch and watch it fight other monsters?

[hynaku]

I hope they add Beast Tamer in 7.0 and make it a whip using class. They could also make it use scouting gear.

[Payadopa]

I'd prefer if we get an actual job that can 'toggle on' limited mode. Like current BRD in a way.

I'd love to see more stuff like that implemented for current jobs. Like jumping puzzles you unlock with 'limited NIN' or target practice with 'limited MCH'. Kinda like old FF mini games.

I mean, FSH already has that with spear fishing. heh
That way they could also bring back regular BLU while preserving 'limited BLU'.

[Wanzzo]

I just want to switch the chocobo to one of my retainer. Would be much more cool imo.

In the old days of 1.x we had some cutscenes with our rentainers. Maybe, the devs back then wanted to make them our companions at some point.
This was changed to make rentainers go alone through the Venture system. But, it would be good if they kept the old plans for them as well (beside the ventures), in my opinion.

[CaptainLagbeard]

The companion system definitely could use an update... Since they last touched it was sometime during ARR, when they made them not count as party members... But they didn't even update it back with Stormblood's release when they removed accuracy so now they have passives that I'm pretty sure actually do nothing.