Final Fantasy 14's final patch before the release of Evercold is finally here, bringing with it a new set of MSQ quests to play through, and the long-awaited introduction of Beastmaster, the game's new limited job.
Beastmaster has proven to be quite the hit so far, breathing new life into the earlier areas of the game by having high-level players stalk around for beasts to capture. It's a decent time sink that should tide us over until the game's next expansion, but there is one element of the job that people are already getting pretty sick of.
To really drive home the idea that you are a master of beasts when playing as Beastmaster, one idea that Square Enix had was to let you have a beast accompany you at all times, even if you go inside housing and, more crucially, inside player cities. If you've noticed a lot of random trees, crabs, and goobues running around Limsa recently, that's what's happening.
While a novel idea in theory, in reality, it's actually annoying quite a lot of people who now have to deal with dozens of enemies alongside dozens of players clogging up city Aetherytes. Limsa Lominsa...
