No BST Sticky?

Why hasn't someone made a BST sticky with gear sets etc?

/cheers!

You could always make one.

I could make one but it won't be as good as your other beast masters.

Then they will chime in on how to make you better. Guides always start out small then get bigger and more in-depth because of the involvement of others.

I'm down to lend a hand. Other than gear sets for WS stuff, we need a new solo leveling guide, much like Durginn's old "Anthologies" page on Allakhazam.

I'm so tired of seeing all these Abyssea leveled BST who don't even know how to use Charm, or think Charm is a 2hr ability. Yes, I had a BST ask me that before.

lol.

I've been a bit burnt out of grinding out merits for the high tier battlefields lately. I might start work on the beastmaster guide soon. I'll probably follow the template of other jobs guides on this forum with gearsets, merit selection, weapon selection and also add in a jug pet section. Is there anything you guys would like to see in this guide?

Been waiting a while to see either you or Attaxia make one of these! :D

Brixy's GEO guide is amazing if you're looking at formatting from other AH guides.

Really looking forward to reading it when you're finished - good luck, man.

Call it Beast Master: Eye of the Tiger :)

Just go here and add 15 levels to the base level cap (unless that exceeds the 119 Axe cap). That's definitely the easy part. :)

TurbidToloi/LuckyLulush/DipperYuly/FlowerpotMerle/DapperMac/
DiscreetLouise/FatsoFargann/FaithfulFalcorr/BugeyedBroncha/
BloodclawShasra/GorefangHobs/GooeyGerard/CrudeRaphie = level 114

DroopyDortwin = level 118

SunburstMalfik/ScissorlegXerin/AttentiveIbuki/HeraldHenry/
CaringKiyomaro/BraveHeroGlenn/SharpwitHermes = level 119

If you want to discuss the best options for BST, it boils down to AttentiveIbuki/HeraldHenry for tanking the majority of foes, or using one of the other level 118/119 pets for dealing damage (like DroopyDortwin for Unleash Foot Kick/Whirl Claws or taking advantage of CaringKiyomaro's +25% Haste/-25% enemy defense TP moves). There's a list of stats here for the level 119 options.

For Very Easy/Easy Battlefield modes and older content there are a ton of "sufficient" pets that you can use based on AH availability or the size of your pocketbook. In these cases, the pets listed above will still be the best, but you can continue to have success with level 114 pets like DipperYuly, GorefangHobs, etc etc. Level 114 pet stat comparison can be found here.

To add on to the above post:

Attentive Ibuki - Absolute best all around pet available at the moment. Extremely sturdy, only a few monster-used physical attacks in the game do not count as Slashing damage (this includes things that seem obvious, like ranged attacks), meaning that Ibuki has a natural 50% extra resistance to almost every type of physical damage above any other pet. In addition to being extremely survivable, he comes with some remarkable Ready moves. Molting Plumage is consistent, decent magical damage and Swooping Frenzy is less powerful, less consistent physical damage with an additional 25% DEF down and -25 MDB attached. I use this to solo Easy and Normal AA fights. Only downside to this guy is the cost, but you save a lot by making the jugs yourself if you can.

Caring Kiyomaro - Very cheap, and very effective all-around pet. Doesn't have any special damage resistances besides a pretty high resistance to ice damage (25%), but his basic melee attacks and Ready moves are pretty potent, and he has a natural chance to Counter (he's effectively a Footwork MNK) and nicely sized HP pool. Sweeping Gouge deals pretty decent physical damage in addition to lowering the target's DEF by 25% (was pretty surprised to find this when I first tested it). Zealous Snort is neat too, giving him a nice boost to defensive stats (and, less importantly, haste). Very nice pet to use for most situations where you don't need AoE damage or a very sturdy tank.

Lucky Lulush - Looking passed his lower level cap, Lulush is probably my most favorite pet. He's extremely cheap and has a great Ready move pool. Wild Carrot helps reduce the cost of pet food and is useful as an emergency heal if you get into a bind, Foot Kick is a very strong attack, matching most other Ready moves in fTP (1 -> 2 -> 3) but forcing a critical hit in addition to getting a natural 6% critical hit damage bonus. The usefulness of Foot Kick is particularly apparent with Aymur, but since that's so uncommon it's just a bonus. Whirl Claws is what sets Lulush apart from other pets the most: a very consistent source of AoE physical damage. With Unleash, you can solo things like Einherjar TIII wings using this little guy.

Droopy Dortwin - Until he's cheaper he isn't very useful, but he'll basically be a stronger Lucky Lulush once they make the mushrooms drop from funguars.

Faithful Falcor - Useful until you get a Chaac Belt. Comes with a nice set of Ready moves in addition to natively high Evasion and a TH1 trait. Best used in Dynamis for the TH, but Choke Breath also serves as a means of dealing non-elemental, physical and magical resistance bypassing damage (as well as a low cost, low risk extra JA proc for dynamis). Back Heel is effectively Foot Kick without the autocrit or additional crit damage attached.

The rest really aren't very good. Gorefang Hobs can be the best DD pet we have in certain conditions since he gets a pretty big attack bonus, but it isn't often that you're using a pet solely for single target damage output. Malfik, Xerin, Henry, and Hermes are all pretty weak in general and are hard to argue a case for.

the noses knows

Need another Facorr esque pet XD, he was da man; best pet ever^^

Outside of Ibuki, the rest are pretty meh.

Ibuki's slashing resistance saves her, otherwise, Dortwin would be in high rotation after Monday's update (Better dd capabilities).

Which Normal AAs have you soloed?

Galka and Hume are the only reasonable ones and the only ones I've killed on normal by myself (with the Galka being difficult unless you have bleeding edge gear), Elvaan may be possible but you'd need to get lucky on her TP usage. Mithra has too much evasion to do without a BRD or COR and taru's spikes are too strong. Hume's the easiest of the AAs to solo though, and the easiest to bring down on normal.

Hi - Just started playing BST last night, and I think I want to do more than just mess around with the OAT axes. I have a lot to learn about the job and gear, because, for the past 12 or so years of ffxi, I've never even touched BST extensively.

Where can I go to see the best Call Beast/Charm/Reward/Pet DT-acc-haste-regen/etc gear sets?

Also a question on Call-Beast: If the 109 relic hands have an augment for Call Beast or something, is there any use to merit this ability?

And finally - What do I merit on BST? I have an idea of what to merit, but want to make sure im not double-dipping, or missing out on something with the addition of some relic/artifact gear that might effectively do the same thing.

Thanks. Also, try to avoid using BST abbreviations, since some terms I may not be familiar with yet.

Heyo.

Charm:
ItemSet 311276

Pet Haste/Accuracy:
ItemSet 264979

Pet PDT/Evasion/Regen:
ItemSet 320353

Reward:
ItemSet 308312

"Best" Call Beast set just involves Ankusa Gloves/+1, so that's an easy one. You could use Armada/Adaman Sollerets with the Call Beast Time -10 synergy augment, but it's not a major improvement.

There are a bunch of other gearsets you can check out in this thread over here.

Opinions can vary a lot regarding what constitutes the best merit setup - it'll depend on the sort of content you use your BST for. You'll want to get at least SOME Beast Affinity merits because of AttentiveIbuki (naturally caps at level 109, so with Ankusa Gloves it needs 4 BA merits to be brought up to level 119). Feral Howl is still a good claim tool/Dynamis proc at level 1. Reward merits are handy if you're riding the Reward timer on harder fights, and Beast Healer merits are a great augment to the already-sizable Pet Food Theta regen effect.

Cheers.

Are beast bazubands obsolete?

They are, yes. Usurped by Ankusa Gloves/+1.

Thanks for that Falkirk. I figure with the changes to 115 weapons being OAT (glad I saved both), all of the dynamis gear and REM papers I;ve saved, and the Login Campaign having I-Seal Kupons buyable (making doing empyrean sets much quicker), now is a good time to start gearing BST for funs. If for nothing else, fodder events. I have to think too much on BLU sometimes, lol, so BST is a nice change.

And I saw the post about pet jobs getting an increase soon, too. So that's exciting. Currently 109'ing Ankusa gear.