Beast Tamer discussion thread

I said the same thing on Basil, the general response was that both involve characters with animal ears and a tail and that both summon stuff to attack.

Anyone with half a brain though would know they are nothing alike.

Thats my opinion as well. That doesn't mean that its half-brained.

My issue with this class has little to do with its mechanics. Although I'm of the opinion that only so much can be done with any given class to differentiate it from whats arguably a locked down style of play (which involves killing monsters in the same repetitive fashion as every other job), my primary concern with this new class isn't one regarding the way that it handles, but the idea behind it. Though you might not agree with the Basilmarket members complaining of the similarities between this job and Eunwol, you'd have to be blind to not notice the conceptual similarities between two. Whether or not an animal summon is in "spirit form" does absolutely nothing to set it apart from a class whose animal summons are not, and its very clear from the beginning that both classes have a very heavy focus on animals, being rescued by animals, commanding animals, taking refuge in a home for animals...

It isn't an issue of whether or not the Beast Tamer can spam her attacks slightly faster or in a slightly different way from Eunwol. It has everything to do with the fact that, in a game that is already suffering from an extremely bloated (and largely unnecessary) roster of available classes to choose from, the decision has been made to further exacerbate the problem by adding an additional one that serves little purpose to the game (from what I can tell) and does nothing else in the long run apart from being a casual aside or a buff: especially with the boss damage % at stake. It'll be made for link skills and thrown away just like every other class we've gotten in the past few years, apart from those exceptionally overpowered or popular.

Why bother with this sort of thing? Don't we have enough? Can't we focus on something that won't add to the constant cycle of revamps and rebalances currently dominating the updates? It could be that I'm biased. Who knows? Maybe "Flame Fart" isn't a particularly exciting first job skill to me. Maybe animals just aren't my thing. Or maybe my opinion is simply different from yours, or the entire board's. It doesn't matter: What does matter is, it isn't ignorant.