During the recent Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) Japan FanFest 2024 keynote speech, it was revealed that the previously hinted limited job coming in Dawntrail is Beastmaster.

During the keynote speech that happened during the first day of the FFXIV Japan FanFest 2024, the game’s director and producer Naoki Yoshida revealed the identity of a new limited job coming to the game. They revealed that the job is the Beastmaster and that it will be coming to the game during the latter half 7.X patches. Other than the name of the job, they did not reveal any specific information regarding the job.

What they did say was that the job can be played solo, or with other limited jobs. If our understanding is correct, that means that players will be able to team up with players using the other limited job: Blue Mage, and clear content together. They also mentioned that due to the nature of the job, it will also likely have a collection feature, similar to the one Blue Mage has. Instead of collecting spells, however, the Beastmaster will instead capture and collect monsters. More information, as well as art for the job, will arrive at a future date.

The existence of the new limited job was first revealed during the London FanFest back in October. During the keynote speech, they announced that the limited job would be coming to the game during the latter half of 7.X. When Yoshida, who also spoke during said keynote speech, asked the people in the audience what they thought the limited job was, quite a lot of them mentioned Beastmaster. Thanks to the recent reveal, it would appear that those players were right.

Funnily enough, thanks to the shirt that Yoshida wore during the Las Vegas FanFest, a lot of players actually thought that Beastmaster would be the Magical DPS job. This is thanks to the fact that his shirt had the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. Players thought that since his shirt had animals on it, the Magical DPS job would also use animals, hence the Beastmaster theory. Sadly for those players, they recently revealed Pictomancer as the new Magical DPS.

That’s all the information we have so far about the upcoming FFXIV limited job: Beastmaster. More information about Dawntrail can be found on the official FFXIV Dawntrail website. Check out our gaming news articles for the latest in gaming news.