#beastmaster

7.5 Patch Site updated, which means we've got the job art for beastmaster and a look of the armor on a lalafell

I'm also curious if they're going to "fix" the problem that arises with a lot of stuff like this, where technically your kit is extremely flexible and you have a lot of fun options and interactions, but the payoff for doing them is way worse than just working towards the "optimal strats" and two minute openers

Blue Mage has always had the issue that you get a bunch of spells that end up being

200 potency with no real effect outside of being different elements

<200 potency with niche debuffs or combos with other moves, that end up not working on bosses, anyway

>200 potency boss spells that get added to the main kit because it does big damage within the moon flute burst window

And all dungeon runs are just rotating instant kill spells, which is fun the first couple of times, but aside from everybody having different spell acquiring progression, outside of masked carnival there's rarely any incentive to experiment, especially once you get to raiding

We know for beastmaster, the chimera is able to freeze enemies and then has an extra skill that damages frozen enemies more, which is very reminiscent to a lot of blue mage skills, which can be interesting for dungeons but once again useless for bosses, and it also depends on how they plan to have players interact with the planned solo content

am I bummed that we couldn't get a blue mage update in the expansion that introduced the land they came from, even if it would only be up to level 90 anyway, so it literally could not go to tural, because it's always content made for older expansions?

yeah a little

but the sooner they lay the foundation for beastmaster, the sooner they can expand on it, and again, the guy designing it is cracked at fight design, it's going o be fun

maybe to make up for it they up the blue mage levels by 20 and then they can have a questline into tural

regardless, is it funny to doompost about blue mage, however?

going in a dungeon solo with a pack of monsters is cool, but does that mean you just don't party up ever?

because blue mage outside of the carnival, slowly became the "quirky raiding" job and always sort of leaned towards group play (for better or for worse you partied up to learn spells from raids and dungeons unless you were overleveled, and even then the solo skills boosting your stats a lot weren't in until a while later), so I can understand if they move away from that despite both of them being "limited jobs"

Whether blue mage and beastmaster are *expected* to interact with each other is based on whether:

there are skill interactions (beastmaster lowering elemental resistances/blue mage having elemental attacks or beastmaster applying debuffs/blue mage taking advantage of debuffs)

there are achievements that reward beastmaster for doing content with blue mage (will clearing a fight with full limited jobs matter or just one, and even if it does, would you not just bring a full part of one or the other)