I personally would LOVE to see beastmaster in ffxiv. I was a hardcore bst in ffxi, and eventually quit because they broke the job. There were some elements to that job that were really promising and they never fully developed that job to be as good as it could have been. It really just turned into a generic dd.

The direction that ffxi did not take is one that I hope to see in ffxiv one day. The bst job needed to focused around charm, not around Call Beast. We turned from beastmasters into magicians really, pulling rabbits out of a hat. I hope that in ffxiv we will actually get a class that needs to know the strengths and weaknesses of the wild enemy in order to use them to fight to our advantage. We would need to know the wild terrain better than the city streets. I hope that we actually have to tame the mobs that we see roaming the landscape instead of mobs that we pull from our pocket. And that's where our pets would come from, not some premade familiars that follow us around. If that were the case we wouldn't be bsts anymore, but smns.