09/19/2026
After playing BST here is my rating.
6/10
I feel that this job has SO much more potential. But they put the best part of it behind the mini board game. And that would be leveling. If they made it so you could level and make your beasts super powerful that would make this job a 10/10. But onto the details, just wanted to put this first for those who dont wanna read or dont have time.
So to start off, the beast catching part is really fun. I enjoyed going around doing FATES to level up and once i level up my character ill go catch a monster to add to my list. I did it all solo, so it was kinda slow. But if you have a party you could probably get them all in one day from lvl 1 to 50. I did FATES and collected Yo-Kai medals during it so i could get the mount before it left. So two birds one stone.
Battling was really fun, especially when you get beasts that can inflict status effects (my favorite being lol) and the way you cycle through them is funny to me.
Horn 1-ability-self explode-Horn 2-ability-self explode-Horn 3-ability-auto attack
Like you are sending monsters with C4 strapped to them to fight. And it makes me laugh.
However after you get all the monster and get your character to lvl 50 you can’t really do anything else. You can’t bring it outside of ARR because you will die almost instantly cause the best gear you can equip is like ilvl 135 and thats barely enough to survive the first two areas in Heavensward. Like you might be able to doom and dash but other than that you are kinda useless. I really hope this class gets more powerful so that it has more use like Blue Mage. However I’m pretty sure they want it to be for their minigame only so they will probably continue to give you gear thats only really useful in the side game and not the overworld.
Onto the minigame, I completed the first three boards and haven’t started the Master Boards yet cause I needed to grind levels more. You level up your monsters in the minigame and it calls itself a rouge like so each run is kinda unique. However you will be fighting the same enemies in the same order every time so the only rouge part is what gear/loot the monster drops. And it pulls from a specific pool for each monster so there isn’t too much variation?? I think its to prevent someone getting a golden run and making it impossible to beat in ranked, but i haven’t done ranked yet so i couldn’t say.
Each board has its own level cap so you can level them easier and not worry about someone being overpowered. However your character will get to a point where they can do some bosses without any monsters (i accidentally did this twice because you have to pick 3 monsters each fight and i forgot to do that but still won. Both on the second board final boss). And everyone shares the same exp pool so even if u didn’t use them having them in the roaster levels them up anyway.
You have to grind each board like 3-4 times each to be ready for the next board. And after doing this 12 times you get really really bored cause you are fighting the same boss everytime with the monsters that you know can take them down fastest and choosing the same or near same loot each time since there is little variation. And you only get like 5 gems each time if you dont go for specific bonus points. And those gems unlock better gear so you wont die as much in the minigame but its still not good enough gear for anything outside of ARR.
Overall i really suggest people try this class. Cause its insanely fun to try out. But i will say that the fun kinda dies down fast once you reach level cap.
This are just my thoughts tho, i know people who adore the minigame and im happy to see that. But I don’t really see me myself doing more with it after I get the max gear.
