Killer Instinct: The Beastmaster Compendium

The axe isn't a requirement. It's just a huge -DT slot (-25%). You can easily just remove the Chirich Rings for a Defending + Murky Ring combo for 48% DT.

The focus of the set is the Counter+, which is going to come down to RP on Gleti's Mask, and the gil for upgrading Bathy Choker.

Counter set isn't possible for me. I'm not doing any Odyssey augments anytime soon. I was looking to see how possible it is to solo Dyna D without having to resort to making a set like that.

I was hoping someone had tried it and had first hand experience. I'll do it myself at some point. If I get killed doing it, it's no problem.

Youll lose 10 counter by not having that. Bit of a blow but still fairly effective overall

you can go for statue first or last. I prefer First


Statues can hit a bit harder than the normal mobs, but as long as you not feeding them tp, they are moderate risk.

Ankusa axe works fine instead of pangu and costs much less. In fact there are many alternative builds that can be used. I just showed what I already had a itemset on bg-wiki made of.

the point was that adapa shield and counter make an incredible tanking set which can hold all the mobs you worried about.

you could use any axe and murky ring, defending ring, alabaster earring to have just as much damage reduction. lots of other combinations as well.


edit: looks like others replied already.

I like gleti's for dancer counter build too... but there are other options. Not sure what jobs you take seriously or not based on posts. if you don't want to gear up your jobs well, then goin w/ a group is alot more reliable. Soloing activities requires better gear than w/ a group.

I think counter set is very good option for any of the jobs that can do it. may of the pieces are all jobs anyway: amar cluster, cryptic earring, bathy choker, and cornelia's belt. None of these are high cost or hard to get. bathy choker most expensive... but I farmed it all myself. Its not niche use for just bst solo'ing dynamis.

the jobs I know worth making counter sets: Mnk, bst, blu, dnc, drg, sam, nin

not sure but I think would be great for:
Pup, Drg, War, thf, drk

I really should figure options for pld and run too, but they seem to have less need.

You'd be completely out of range. Patrice takes half physical damage, ski they're not a threat if she super tanks them. They have no magical attacks, so there is no threat. Pull all and hold on Patrice, kill one by one.

Name Presto Julio Jug jug of chirping grasshopper broth Natural Lvl Cap 93 Maximum Lvl Cap 108 Attack Adj. - Defense Adj. - Species Flytrap Ecosystem Plantoid Job WAR TP/hit 70 Damage Type Slashing iLvl 108 Stats: Max HP 5110 Accuracy 640 Attack 617 Evasion 544 Defense 731

Used Atma of the Bushin to confirm Presto Julio has a MaxHP Modifier of -20%.
Master Level 50 gives pets 350 Max HP before the modifier, so using the stats table above:
iLvl 108 Max HP = 5110 + [350 * 0.8] = 5390

2695 * 2 = 5390

With a similar process, the Pet's growth looks like this from level 108 to level 113:

Condition Level MaxHP iLvl 119 Axe Mainhand 108 5390 iLvl 119 Axe + Nukumi Earring 109 5396 iLvl 119 Axe + Nukumi Earring + Gleti's Boots 110 5404 Spalirisos III 111 5410 Spalirisos III + Nukumi Earring 112 5416 Spalirisos III + Nukumi Earring + Gleti's Boots 113 5424

For Pets that are above Item Level 99, there is currently no reachable cap on Pet:Lvl+ gear. :)
The idea extends to all of the Level 114 cap pets which can be raised to Level 119 with all of the available Pet:Lvl+ gear.

Respect Falkirk! I was just curious if the gear might have brought older pets up to level that made them usable for anything. Xilkk mentioning Julio made me think about others, but after looking at the list, there's not much utility. I hope SE continues to add Pet Level+ gear, though I would prefer new pets to call. Everything charmable should have a familiar version (camels, scorpions, bugards etc)

a little late in more ways than one
this is how I was doing dyna d daily before the nerf to aoe damage
I haven't tried once since that update

was making great gil
kinda just dont want to be disappointed if the aoe dmg is lower because it would slow everything down but im sure it is
still id imagine the strategy would work fine it would just be slower and make less gil, the enemies would start at 100% not 40-50% and no unleash for a quick group kill.

What’s everyone off hand weapon lately when melee master focus?

If you're able to get maxed out Ikenga's axe, I think that's still one of the strongest offhand choices.

In Limbus, I've been using single-wield when partying with full buffs (Tri-Edge Calamity spam or Prime Blitz spam) - and when solo I often use Kraken Club offhand.

Just following up on this, now that the gear has been available for a few weeks:

1629 Digest (1540 TP)
1743 Digest (1540 TP with Magnificent Cyclas)

Confirmed that the Envy/Justice body works as described with its Pet: DMG+X% effect, which places it among the strongest gear available (outside of Nyame Mail Path D) for physical Ready moves and Digest/Infected Leech/Drainkiss.

I much prefer /war, so axe/shield. Chose diamond aspis for it too.

BRING BACK DIGSET

I was trying to find another dual wield option as it felt like an eternity when dual wielding axes. Agree that single wield might be the way to go for now.

In a side note, it’s refreshing to see bst benefiting from limbus gear :)

Aymur/Agwu
Dolchenus/Crepuscular Knife, Ternion dagger +1
Spalirisos/Fernagu, Ikenga

Digirbalag and Purgation can be good offhand axes. However I think Agwu's has them solidly beaten and faster to get.

If you have the money, Kraken Club is a great offhand, though I wouldn't purchase it solely for BST (or at all, price is now outrageous and IMO not worth the cost). Otherwise, Blurred Knife +1 is decent to use, especially when the non ilvl weapon like Fernagu/Kraken whiffs on higher level targets when you're soloing without acc buffs. It gives BST OAT40%~50 (or that's what I have heard reported) and Haste Proc buff (15%, but I'm not finding any sources of this). I carry one on me anyways just in the rare cases I lose my RDM trust for any of my Dagger-usable jobs, so I can give myself Haste (with Cornelia its 40% magical, which is nice). It's not a phenomenal option, but it's for sure faster than double axe. However, I think for brute damage, you want Spalirisos+Ikenga's Axe and just suffer through the slow TP speed (can be made better with Malignance/Limbus gear, Hoxne Ampulla, buffs etc).

BST is a slow job when DWing but hits like a truck when it WS; I'm considering picking up Diamond Aspis if I ever win a Bonanza in the future.

This gives me hope. I hope to bring BST to Limbus one day. I have a toggle for TP'ing as BST with consideration for:

Master Only
Pet Only
Master+Pet

...Is there any reason these days to even have the separation of Master Only or Master+Pet when TP'ing? Same question, but with Hoxne Amp effect added?

There really isnt, especially for BST, the only thing that should be a consideration for the pet would be maybe DT so it can survive, the dmg of auto attacks dont amount to much, ready sets your TP at minimum to 1k, gets anywhere from a decent bit to a lot of tp bonus(aymur) and then add on bst pets being largely war so even more fencer

Hybrid was more of a pup thing but the puppets fallen behind so much even that's kind of a waste, just go all in on master if you're engaging

I have a R30 ikenga's axe and it's a good toy.
It shines with Tri-Edge main and Calamity spam.
However, if one day (huge IF) I'll get the perfect augments on Digirbalag (QA + DA) i think i'll go for it when wearing 5/5 Duty max augments (so 2027 i guess).

how does the duty set fair us on bst? any of the items considered must have?

The set looks completely busted for BST as far as a TP set goes. It's the one set I had my eyes on primarily. Double Attack, Triple Attack, Store TP, and Subtle Blow along with -DT in the same set. BST suffers from a slower TP phase, and it getting a huge chunk to multi attack helps out a lot. Of course, Hoxne Ampulla solves for it if you prefer to pay. BST comes prepackaged with innate subtle blow when engaged with the pet, so the set enhances that even further. Falkirk confirmed the body is already BIS if no pet Nyame.

I feel like BST could get a high native multi attack set before but it was rather squishy. This set solves for that problem in a number of ways. Just sucks it will take forever to finish augmenting it

I will say, it's possible the aug for TA caps at R25, which would heavily reduce the amount of RP needed to cap...there's hope.

how much difference does Tri-edge make vs ambu axe? Debating if its worth spending my 50k beads on this or something else.

Tri-edge is very meh, Ruinator is unremarkable, but with either Fernagu or Ikenga as a sub axe, it's the best main hand for Calamity and Mistral Axe.

I wouldnt spend my beads on it unless you havent got any other weapon you want to make first.

Yeah, I was messing with Tri-Edge and Calamity a bit last week due to some of these posts, and I normally use it mostly with Mistral. But I'm always disappointed by it and this last time was no different. For physical WS situations, I pretty much always perform better with Dolichenus spamming Decimation.

Caveat that I don't have a R20+ Ikenga, but I do have reasonable alternatives in Fernagu, Barbarity+1, Agwu...

I think Tri-Edge is kind of a waste of an Aeonic if you have anything else of consequence for your jobs to prioritize. Really more of a toy for BST gotta catch em all purposes for me, just something I mess around with. I did R15 it because I'm just that way. Would have been more fun as a WAR toy, tbh.

Yep, 100%

Farsha is a fantastic axe for bst, and calamity hits like a truck with it too.

Farsha/Shield is a lot of fun, most fun I've had on bst since the rampage days.

The trials for it are particularly excruciating though, fair warning if you go for it.

Summoned pet level +1 on gear? Does that add stats to an already called pet on the fly? Or does it work like a +1 to Call Beast when pet is called?

And do they stack?

That one, its a constant check so if you remove it the pet level goes down, and goes back up if placed back on. And yes they stack

I have a left-field nostalgic case study to share :D
This might be interesting for the old school bst's anyone else probably won't care at all.

I came across "Huntin' for Games" youtube video about Job suggestions in the old Brady guide for FFXI.

Specifically of-course I paid attention to the Beastmaster information in the Brady guide.
Brady guide is kinda hilarious in most tips and information.

This mmo was such uncharted territory nobody really knew how to play it.

The tips for bst weren't actually terrible. Though it is kinda ironic seeing the recommendation for warrior as a support job right next to white mage as a support job.

It just goes to show that aside from "solo'er" beastmaster's role was never defined.

However, what stuck out to me was the recommendation for Bard as a support job.

No one EVER used brd for support job that I remember. its so weak compared to the main job, your skill is poor, you only get singing instead of singing + instrument, and brd is the most party-dependent job while bst has historically been the most party-phobic job.

The only correlation they seemed to have is that they both have need for Charisma. Then I thought more about it, and paid attention to what level brd gets what songs at...

and it started making more sense. alot more sense.

Then I had to try it out. so I leveled brd up to support job level of 59 and skilled it up on my only character that does not have a level 99 bst. I had fun getting good low level chr+ gear for bst.

Then I went old-school solo, no trusts, no FoV, no GoV just charm and fight. Unfortunately I could not pause the exp bonuses from Rhapsodies for my test... so I level too fast
(though ofcourse I could on a private server)
But wow, bst/brd is so well balanced.

1. The extra CHR is noticeable for charm success.

2. Brd songs cost no mp (I leveled bst as Galka before the stat adjustments and /whm never had enough mp to be useful at until level 75)

3. Bard songs don't get interrupted by normal hits. just when you move or get silenced/stunned/etc. So w/out fast cast and maybe the mob turns torward me, I still get the song off.

4. Bard gets a lot of useful songs in early levels: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11; and they are really useful!

Defense, Attack, Regen, Requiem: Dot, Accuracy, Light Threnody

The most useful for Bst is Army's Paeon. Who remembers solo-leveling before Fields of Valor buffs?

having even a low 1hp/tic regen is HUGE for bst solo'ing. Its a pain to stop and rest. /whm did not fix this, it only prolonged your battle time by a little. but when /brd you dont' have to. you can send pet to fight while you recover hp and find a new pet at same time. You can kite so much better when you need to.

Attack, defense, and accuracy bonuses are just a little bit, but available early and useful when you need them.

Light Threnody: lower targets light resistance... well Charm is light elemental. so threnody would be nice, if you can land it, for those hard to charm mobs at higher levels you want to familiar (slimes!)

I'm still trying it out, and its nostalgic and fun. but I don't know anyone who played bst/brd back in the day,

for bst solo, low level its quite fantastic. and for early bst parties it would have been incredibly welcome. the bst/mage would LOVE a ballad. 1mp/tic is plenty of help at those levels and for those needs. Even in the levels 60+ a refresh for solo/lowman pet setups is fantastic for the backline support.

I don't remember seeing anyone play this combo back then. I did play around w/ brd/bst but only for early levels on brd and not that much. and I didn't understand the mechanics hardly at all back then and didn't have the insight to recognize what a good thing it was.

Just thought I'd share. The Brady Guide actually had a good suggestion with this one which.. I think everyone ignored. and its rather fun

I don't think it would compete with Bst/dnc at some point, but it is a very viable option.

Hope someone finds this interesting.