Beastmaster Speculation

[Reginald_Cain]

We're still quite a few patches out from getting it but do you have any fun predictions on what we'll be playing with? I'm wondering mostly about what weapon we'll use, and if we'll mount our monsters, play as our monsters or fight along side them. Will the taming system be a copy paste of ff11 or ff5? Do you have a taming method you'd like them to use? I wouldn't mind a mini game where you feed them and while they eat,you go to wrangle them with some ropes.

[CidHeiral]

If they're devoting a whole custom system to it like BLU I'm assuming BST will be FFXIV Pokemon.

[mallleable]

I think it's gonna use maiming gear, and use either double hatchets or a hatchet, and shield like we've seen in Bozja, and XI. I think its gameplay is gonna revolve around mounted combat where you and your beast fight as one, and side by side combat where you and your beast are separate. Different beasts, and different sized beasts can change this flow, like some beasts might be too small for a mounted phase. It could have some kind of Masked Carnivale like activity, and a bestiary log to fill out.

[Aco505]

I just want the ability to tame monsters. I don't mind if some abilities are something like summoning a beast to do an attack and then leave like SMN but we should have a proper pet. Essentially, a system similar to BM hunter in WoW.

Sadly, since they have been moving away from pets, I fear I will be disappointed.

[Jaltaer]

I'm betting it will be phys ranged for no real reason other than we haven't gotten a new one since ShB. And I imagine it'll probably play like pre-EW SMN did, since iirc their reasoning for the lobotomy was that pet jobs don't really fit in with the way they want to design jobs.. so where better to bring back the concept than in a limited job. But that's all I got for speculation.

[ShadowNyx3]

Instead of providing constructive criticism for the content on how it could be improved or better implemented into the game, the community will overwhelmingly complain about how it doesn't live up to their class fantasy and shouldn't be a limited job.

[Laerune]

We are going to use the soul system from Arcadion. We are not going to get the option to tame alot of beasts.

SE removed pets from Summoner, Scholar and Machinist for a reason.

Mark my words, the MSQ or Arcadion story will reveal something that will allow us to use Beast souls.

[Valence]

I think it's going to function exactly like BLU because it's formulaic. The player will unlock the job, go around in the wild, and "tame" monsters by beating them, and adding them to a "bestiary" using the same interface than the BLU spellbook. The player will then pick which beasts they do want to pick for their hotbars, and they will play like SMN summons or BLU spells, showing up to do an attack, then going away.

Edit: the Arcadion and msq lore bits about beast souls would actually work perfectly as an explanation for the whole concept.

[Aco505]

Not too sure about the Arcadion part considering the WoL is against regulators and using souls specifically both in the MSQ and the Arcadion story. I certainly hope BST is not some kind of "druid" archetype transforming using souls.

[Rongway]

We are going to use the soul system from Arcadion. We are not going to get the option to tame alot of beasts.

SE removed pets from Summoner, Scholar and Machinist for a reason.

Mark my words, the MSQ or Arcadion story will reveal something that will allow us to use Beast souls.

Highly doubtful. Limited jobs historically have stayed multiple cap levels behind, and introducing regulators to low level folks who may still be in ARR patches or HW as part of a limited job quest just isn't something they would do.