Killer Instinct: The Beastmaster Compendium

It's some level of interesting, but lacked core important things

What happens when you do fail a charm, you're toast. No emergency cure, no reraise, no shadows

Dying no rr and having to walk back was, painful. No sneak/invis either from /whm or /nin

As a duo, maybe, as uncommon as duoing bst was

if you didnt have at least 2 reraise earrings and 3-5 warp cudgels you were playing the game wrong. lack of shadows is probably the biggest killer back then since that's 6 free hits(assuming you could time it right) was hopefully enough to get 2-3 charm attempts out

lol

I don't remember having an effective emergency cure from /whm anyway.

you have stoneskin and blink for that. not cure. cuz you will 100% get interrupted.

The emergency button might be lullaby. dunno haven't leveled it high enough yet to see how reliable it might be.

cures were a mixed bag anyway as if you were trying to cure from being hit, the cures likely going to return very little HP, and bst has no MP, and if you did it at any point while the pet was fighting? Likely pulling hate right there if you didnt go out of hate generation range. SS might tank 1 hit at best iirc, especially when if solo every mob has crit rate +80%, blink got you 1 shadow then the next will never proc when you need it lol.

Lullaby with a light staff might work on DC stuff, feel like EM and up itll start failing just due to half of a an already low skill

I remember when they introduced Feral Howl i macro'd it as "Oshi" button, thinking it'd be game changer for my survivability.
Oh the disappointment...