Killer Instinct: The Beastmaster Compendium

Just don't get hopes up.
If they do something awesome, it'll just be that, otherwise the job just accrues more unused JA/Traits.

Edit: FIRST PAGED EVAR!

Chigoe is my favorite monster to use in pankration. I'd love to have it as a pet.

Hits weaker than a mandy and any debuff effects are less than 2% proc rate?

But hits super fast and is bounces up and down like it's happy!

And dies almost as fast as it hits

A BST pet with good AI

Call Beast needs to be on a 60s timer, no reason to have that thing on a long *** timer when your already consuming an item in the process.

Here's hoping its somewhat substantial, I'm mildly optimistic as it being the only job being adjusted in the month suggests a more sweeping change taking more testing than usual.

Nice
New skins incoming!

The animation in the picture does NOT match killer instinct, run wild, charm, tame, gauge, feral howl, unleash, or anything.

Closest animation is familiar in that there is color around your hands AFTER the yellow wave beam goes to your pet.

I don't think it matches familiar either, which indicates a new job ability.

Perhaps a JA that allows you to use your pets moves on yourself? That could be the JA activation animation along with Rage from sheep on the beastmaster.

That is a very good guess. The green looks like its just around the hands.

Otherwise the red looks exactly like rage. but you are right, its around the master, not the pet.

wow. that could be a crazy awesome ability. I would forgive alot for an ability that did that. that would bring a huge change in dimension in the utility of alot of a select few pets. That would revitilze beastmaster and encourage a playstyle where pet supports master.

such a JA woudl be pretty broken though, would have to nerf the pet in some way.

zealous snort would be OP. A source of Job Ability haste for Beastmaster.. that would be incredible... let alone the MDB and Counter. (guard wouldn't happen... then again I have kaja knuckles to test...)

Rage: A 60% Berserk for bst? Bst is quite attack starved, so this would be incredible. and incredibly easy to DIE :D snarl FTW.

Rhino guard: +25% evasion

wow, crabs would make a huge come back defensively.
Bubble Curtain mdb +50
Scissor Guard def + 100%
Metallic Body stoneskin

WAter Wall def +100%

Secretion: Eva +25

Harden Shell Det +50%

... oh wait

Fantod!
Would be be nerfed to like the blu spell? or stay the 4x damage on next hit? Super Boost for weaponskills ... I would max damage so easily that way... its just too much.


thats a really cool idea. would be cool if they do it.

but 99.9% of the moves are offensive... actually that would be fun. Bst suicide move!

As an idea thats pretty unique, reverse of drg. But really, they used the only real worthwhile ability as the screen shot.

(totally missed your post you said basically what I said lol)

It just makes you a shittier blu mage. And you have to use a suboptimal pet to do it.

To make it good they would have to like... make it give the master % of the pets raw stats or something like that, not rely on pet's buffs. It's just highly ineffective. (other than zealous snort, that ones actually really good, considering)

I did alot of editing after the fact adding details and thoughts.

VivaciousVickie is NOT a suboptimal pet.

This would make it the best. You know multi-attack ready moves have the highest damage potential yes?

and Sweeping gouge would be the best one. So, def down on the highest damage ready move, and all those buffs to the master. There is nothing suboptimal about that.

Crab is the best pet for turtling up and mitigating damage already. giving that to the master is pretty sweet.
hah, can you imaging tp in full malignance gear, then drop another 50 mdb on top of it? or double def?

Overpowered to do those things. would have to be a drawback.

50 mdb? Isnt it just 50% shell effect?

Taken from front page;
Enhances pet's magic defense. (MDT-50% effect) Duration of effect varies with TP.

Yeah, bubble curtain wouldn't do anything (assuming you had trusts or a source of shell)

The only thing you really would get is snort and rage. Snort gives you 25 MDB. You'd be limited to vickie on everything or burning your jug cooldown for a buff.

... It's better than nothing but that's not really a good idea either.

woops, thank you yes, my bad.

50 mdt would be rather not useful, since it is easy to cap anyway.
unless it was a separate category altogether.

anyway, its fun to think about. a neat idea even if they don't do it.

I dont think theres a real cap to mdb, but im not sure on that.

mdt is capped for players at 50%
for pets at 87.5%

MDB is NOT capped.
but as you pointed out, Bubble Curtian is NOT mdb like I was thinking... it is MDT. so it is capped.

Actually if they did the change mentioned above along with what Saevel mentioned in a 60 second call beast timer, that would really fix bst.

I really don't think some attack and haste "fix" anything but if youre happy with bare minimums

There's a whole list of stuff they could work on, but hey, how about berserk, that's good enough right?

maybe they will make you as useful as they just did pld, and ninja. LOL... good luck with that.

After 3 years and re-skinned pets, I hope this update is substantial. Give us 5/5 Beast Healer and 5/5Beast Affinity permanently and replace it with something worthy of "front-line DD"

Let the piss rain after the update, there is zero reason to speculate.

If the previous BST "adjustment" was any indication......don't get your hopes up.....ever.

there are at least 2 reasons to speculate:

1. Its fun.

2. Bragging rights if you get it right.

Wouldnt mind seeing a ilvl119 version of Charmers Merlin myself. Maybe some Oboro or Magian quests to make is slightly sexier still... I can dream can't I?

I'm guessing new spur adjustment:

Spur now functions like berzerk, raising attack and lowering defense for both master and pet because risk is fun or something

Bst is the drk of the pet jobs. Obviously. All the risk and minor reward!!!! Joking asidr love the job.