Dev Post New BST Jugs Sold By NPC

Six new familiars: The items required to summon these creatures will be sold by Theraisie, a new NPC located in Upper Jeuno (G-6).

Lizard
Pugil
Beetle
Slug
Fungaur
Sheep

Zero details, just pictures. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/43912-dev1229-Job-Adjustments

All copies of former jug pets. Why can't they just remove the level cap from all jugs and focus on adding new families?

Also boo that they're bought from NPC and not crafted.

This sounds great. It might not only be a nice buff to beastmaster if the pets are good, but also greatly improve their usability.

a lvl 119 lizard is pretty sexy sounding since its Infrasonics will be much easier to use

I'm happy about the ilvl 119 lizard and amorph. We were missing those for a while. We will be able to keep killer instinct up on most things now. We also get ilvl 119 sleep song from the sheep. It will make the tenzen fight + SKCNM fights incredibly easy now.

This still doesn't fix the core problem that all pet jobs are suffering from, which is the low native accuracy and attack power of our pets.

Although, a new 119 Lizard with Infrasonics does sound intriguing. Hopefully SE doesn't screw the implementation up somehow.

Are you sure they're going to be 119? Maybe they'll just be an easy obtained ilvl pet (maybe about 115) that anyone can get, whereas the highest level pets will remain crafted.

Of course I'm not too familiar with bst so correct me if my assumptions are wrong.

I would be surprised if they were not ilvl 119 pets. 4 of the 6 pets shown can already be called out as ilvl 114 pets so it would be pretty redundant.

It is SE we are speaking of.

Seems they were confirmed to be Item Level 119.

Any news on the new jugs?

they suck

Have the pet Ready moves been improved or expanded?

Can you quantify how much they suck? :)

SO did some research on all 6 new pets last night.

Lizard hits normal and the infrasonics did stick to mobs in the Adoulin areas. Needs more work.

Sheep hits hard. Rage makes critical hits around 700ish. Lamb Chop hit for roughly 3000.

Pugil pretty weak. low attack and defense sadly.

Fungar the breath attacks seem to be low, decent attack, lower bit of defense.

Beetle: excellent defense low attack.

Slug: low attack, very tough defense, constant enslow effect and his ready moves are very deadly. AoE 2700 on T mobs. Worked out pretty well.

All in all that is what I tested last night. I do not know if this will help or not but yeah to buy them will help those who can not make their own I guess.

BST pets are still only viable if doing stuff AA on below N mode and in Dynamis the Rabit still looks to be the winner.

New Jug Pet Info

The only one that naturally caps at 119 is the Slug.

What makes Droopy Dortwin best for Dyna? Just curious. I haven't done Dyna on BST in a few months myself.

Whirl Claws on Droopy or Peter has an extremely wide AOE range which also does decent damage. Whirl Claws allows your pet to AOE pull many mobs at once.

Unfortunately, while the rabbit can pull and tank many mobs at once in Dynamis, a 117-119 pet may be too high for Dynamis farming because the pets hit hard enough to kill mobs before you can proc them all.

If, however, you are needing spark points, you can get a good amount of sparks doings doing Whirl Claw-Unleash-Revitalizer spam on Beseiged mobs. You'll also get max Besieged points and can use those points for Imp. Gold to sell at a nice profit for less than 10 minutes of your time. That's how short Besieged battles last these days with a beastmaster or 2 holding the gate with Whirl Claw spam.

Yeah, using a 118-119 pet in Dyna seems to be a mixed bag, to me. I was using Falcorr earlier this year, which was a good compromise between damage and procs. With a strong 118 pet like the rabbit, I'd end up killing a lot of un-proc'ced mobs.

Honestly, I find Dyna on BST now to be a little bit disheartening. Our duo gets 700-780ish currency per run with me on dancer. On BST, it was more like 600-650, maybe 700 with no competition in the full 120 minutes. Any time you have even one more person, there's not enough mobs in any DC camp to support a geared beastmaster. I don't know how many of you still do Dyna on BST but this has been my experience.

I'll have to try that in Beseiged. I still have a ton of IS from colibri parties so I never really thought about farming more :P