After 16 yEars of adventures in Eorzea, Final Fantasy 14 players are finally experiencing something brand new: what it feels like to be a Pokemon trainer. The arrival of the Beastmaster limited job has sparked a wave of nostalgia-fueled excitement across the community, with fans comparing the creature-collecting gameplay to Game Freak’s beloved monster-catching franchise — and many are now begging Square Enix to make it a permanent, fully featured part of the MMO.
What Is Final Fantasy 14’s Beastmaster?
Beastmaster is the newest limited job to hit Final Fantasy 14, arriving as part of the Dawntrail patch cycle. Unlike standard jobs such as Warrior or Black Mage, limited jobs come with restrictions on the content they can queue into, but in exchange, they offer experimental gameplay that simply wouldn’t work within the game’s carefully balanced combat system.
A Creature-Collecting Gameplay Loop
Where Blue Mage, the game’s first limited job, focused on learning enemy abilities, Beastmaster takes a different approach entirely. Players venture out into the world to capture wild creatures, building up a personal menagerie of beasts they can then call upon to fight at their side. The result is a gameplay loop that feels strikingly similar to venturing through tall grass with a party of trusted Pokemon, scanning the horizon for rare spawns to add to your collection.
The Pokemon Comparisons Are Taking Over the Community
It didn’t take long for the comparisons to start flooding in. Across Reddit and social media, Final Fantasy 14 players have been sharing their Beastmaster experiences, and the consensus is remarkably consistent.
“The Pokemon vibe is honestly perfect,” one fan remarked, capturing the sentiment of thousands of others who have picked up the job since its release. For a game that has been running for 16 years, delivering a genuinely fresh way to experience its world is no small feat — and longtime players are savoring every moment of it.
“We Wish It Was a Standard Job”
Perhaps the biggest compliment the community can offer is also its most common complaint. Many players have expressed that they wish Beastmaster was a standard job rather than a limited one, so they could bring their carefully assembled beast roster into dungeons, trials, and raids alongside friends. The restriction, while understandable from a balance perspective, has left fans wanting much more of what the job offers.
Why the Limited Job Format Makes Sense Anyway
Here’s the thing, though: the limited job system is likely the only reason Beastmaster exists in this form at all. Capturing creatures and commanding them in battle fundamentally breaks the rules of Final Fantasy 14’s combat design, where every job is meticulously tuned around group content. By placing Beastmaster outside that framework, the developers were free to build something that genuinely mimics the Pokemon experience — complete with the thrill of the hunt and the satisfaction of growing your collection.
It’s the same philosophy that made Blue Mage a cult favorite. Limited jobs may never headline a raid tier, but they give the MMO a playful, collectible-driven side activity that no other mainstream MMO is really offering right now.
Start Your Own Beast-Collecting Journey
If all this talk of monster-catching has you itching to return to Eorzea — or dive in for the first time — you’ll need the Dawntrail expansion to access the Beastmaster job. You can pick up Final Fantasy 14 game time cards, expansion keys, and other game codes at TURGAME.com, making it easy to jump straight into the creature-collecting action.
Sixteen years in, Final Fantasy 14 is still finding ways to surprise its players. And if the community’s reaction is anything to go by, the Pokemon-style Beastmaster experiment is one of the game’s most delightful additions yet.
Source: GamesRadar