What gear to get with Bst?

[Teioh88]

Hullo all, just getting bst job today and wondering what type of gear should i get? What should a bst try focus his gear on? Mp for more magic? Cha for better taming? Any help would be greatly appriciated.

[Keftenk]

well im only 30, but i am starting to see drastic needs for my bst and what not, but lemme break it up for you quick.

Hume Beastmaster - I have a BST friend that is 30+ and I have asked him which he find more important, MP+, CHR+, or DEX+ items. He told me that as a Hume, he basically just needs the Hume RSE for his MP+ and then he stacks everything else on CHR+.

Elvaan Beastmaster - This is what I am, MP is rare to have -- only can cast 9 Cures or 3 Cure II's. The only MP+ item I wear is a Hairpin that gives +15MP and Friars Rope (+5MP). I am trying to tame some monsters to lv up but my charm is being resisted almost every time by every type of monster except bats and worms. Oh yah, keep in mind i have a Monster Signa (+8 CHR) and i still cant tame a lot of the stuff first time, its rather annoying.

Tartaru Beastmaster - I have another BST friend as a Tarutaru and she seems to have plenty of MP. She actually decks her Taru out with STR+ and DEX+. She is lv 40 and she just now told me she regrets selling her CHR+ items because she is having a very hard time charming monsters.

Galka and Mithra Beastmaster - Both Galka and Mithra are going to need CHR+ to balance it out so they have a equal amount compared to Hume, Elvaan, and Tarutaru. Mithra doesn't really need any DEX+ items nor MP+ (maybe a RSE part like Hume -- same MP values). Galka's probably need MP+ the most, a couple pieces of RSE will do fine, other then that they really dont need anything else besides CHR+, maybe SOME DEX+.



Just, please keep in mind CHR+ isn't really needed until lv 30+ and they are extremley important in BCNM fights. I am TRYING to get a seperate set of armor, CHR+ stack and a DEX+/MP+ stack. Then switch them up with macros. Yet, people tell me you can set /equip certain equipment to macros, but nonetheless I haven't been able to get anything to work ~~:

[imac2much]

Sorry if this is a rather obvious question, but I don't know much about BST... What type of equipment is this monster signa, and where do you get it?

[Keftenk]

the Monster Sigan is a two hand staff..

Lv 17, HP +5 MP +5 VIT -5 CHR +8

Its a Bards best friend and second to Beastmaster. I don't really fight with it tho, sucky damage. So when something resist my charm, i get all pissed and angry and pop out Monster Signa and charm it, usually to be successful. Then i switch back to my one hand axe.

[sudo]

Well my gf showed me a japanese stragety guide that's FAR FAR better than the english one (provided you can read the japanese or like me, try to figure out what things mean by order of presentation =D ) and in one of the screens of useful macros, the guy has the following: (note, these commands are not in the FAQ on gamefaqs on macro use, dunno why)

/equip head @#%&#^ (I can't read what the japanese said and there are no " ")
/equip neck ^&$%*$*
/equip hands ^%***
/equip @%#^ &*$*$*$8 (in this case the word after equip was also japanese)
/echo ^#$*(%(9%()^)


so it seems the syntax for macro equipment change is

/equip (space) head/neck/hands/body part (space) name of item (without brackets)

hope this helps you

[Keftenk]

whats the /echo?