Beastmasters: Level 13!

Kiki and Grym continued their exploits as Beastmasters over the weekend, and are still having a blast with it. I think my favorite prey are VT Goblin Tinkers or Goblin Ambushers, when we have plenty of pets to throw at it. Since they stop to cast or shoot when they're running after you, you have a bit more time to send a new pet after them. We've started using the Wide Scan Track capability to keep track of where the prey is, so when we're off rounding up a new pet we can both get back to the right place.

We levelled to 12 in Tahrongi Canyon, with our last death being right after hitting 11. Those Dhalmels just hit way too hard. It was pretty funny when our pets died, and a second Dhalmel linked, and we were running for the zone to the Mountains. Grym even managed to charm the tough dhalmel for a brief moment. Later, back at our HP in Windurst, we smacked our foreheads and said "should have used our 2 hour".  

At level 12, we headed over to La Thiene Plateau and fought mostly crabs and funguars around the pond near the zone to the Dunes. I had picked up a stack of pet food alpha, since Reward is a new ability at 12. The alpha biscuits would add 33 HP to the pet, which came in handy at times. We finished up the evening well into level 13. I'm looking forward to getting new Charisma gear at 14 (though not really looking forward to spending the gil).