Overview

A Dawntrail ‘limited job’, wielding axe and shield, based around capturing and summoning beasts.

Mechanics

• Fifty beasts are available to start grouped into eight classifications: Beastkin, Vilekin, Cloudkin, Seedkin, Wavekin, Scalekin, Soulkin, and Ashkin.
• Pick up to three beasts to take into a given encounter.

Summoning and Parting

• Each creature’s battlehorn has a summoning cooldown of its own. Summoning a beast swaps out any active beast. These cooldowns will define the major cycles of the class.
• Cooldowns only take effect when in combat, and begin counting down when the beast is dismissed.
• Parting Blow dismisses a beast by executing a powerful AOE.

One with Nature

Each time you summon a beast, you are granted the buff One with Nature. When active, you can consume it to use one of two abilities: either the beast uses a special ability, or you, the Beastmaster, swap in a special ability you can use repeatedly.

In other words, you have a choice every time you summon between a beast’s special ability, and changing your own skill loadout.

Borrow

• Grants the Beastmaster an ability based on the family of the active creature:

Family	Ability	Description
Beastkin	Beastskin	Phys. Damage Taken Down, Crit. Rate Up
Vilekin	Vileskin	Nullify push/draw, 100% Block + TP Gain per Block
Cloudkin	Cloud Skim	Dash, Evasion Up
Seedkin	Seedsower	AoE Damage Dealt Down, DoT
Wavekin	Quelling Wave	Instant Ranged Attack + Dispel, TP Gain + Bonus if Dispel Succeeds
Scalekin	Scaleskin
Soulkin	Soul Crush	Interrupt, 30s CD
Ashkin	Scouring Ash

• The ability remains available even if you change beasts, until you Borrow another.

Tempered Release

• Uses an ability unique to the beast.
  • For example, Slimes have the ability Syrup that deals AOE damage and afflicts with Bind+ for 30s.

Instinctive Actions

• Instinctual Skills have an alignment with one of four ‘elements’: Eldritch, Volant, Rampant, and Durant.
• Beastmasters have four instinctual skills, one for each alignment; and each beast has one, called its Trick.
• There are two gauges: one for the beastmaster and one for the beast. Instinctual Skills consume the full gauge bar of its owner.

Combos

• An Instinctual Combo is triggered when a beastmaster instinctual skill and a beast instinctual skill are triggered within a seven-second span of one another.
  • This triggers follow-up damage.
• An Intentional Combo is triggered when an Instinctual Combo follows the clockwise order of alignments on the Beastmaster gauge; in other words, any two in sequence of Eldritch → Volant → Rampant → Durant → Eldritch.
  • This amplifies the follow-up damage from a normal combo.
  • This gives an additional effect: Sunstrider if starting with Rampant or Eldritch, or Moonstalker if starting with Volant or Durant. The type of the effect is hinted with the light and dark borders of the circle. It is not yet clear what these effects do, beyond signaling that you succeeded in a combo.

Rallies

• Two additional resources are gained during play: Mastered Instinct and Natural Instinct, spent to cast Rally and Rallying Cheer to boost your or your beast’s gauge, respectively. This can be used to chain together combos back-to-back.

Combo Chains

• As you chain together combos, you raise a combo count gauge that further amplifies the damage of combos.

The Crucible of the Unbroken

• Similar to the Masked Carnivale for Blue Mage, this is Beastmaster-specific content.
• The structure is a very basic Slay the Spire branching path.
  • All encounters can be previewed before entering, so you can pick your familiars and bring suitable counters for your intended path.
• Beasts acquire experience to rank up, adding additional stats within the Crucible only, up to a maximum of 25. Maxing a beast’s rank unlocks a skin for that beast.
• Each board may have its own limits to how many beasts you can bring. You still select up to three per encounter.
• Progression gives you currency for shops. Items and gear aid progress (healing, restart chances, boosted abilities, etc.).
• Rest sites permit HP and recovery of fallen beasts.
• There are three challenge difficulties per board, with scoring and rankings running in seasons approximately in line with patch releases.

Preview Bestiary

	#	Name	Classification	Damage	Trick	Tempered Release
✔	1	Cu Sith	Beastkin	Piercing	Rake Phys. Slashing AOE	Relentless Rake 6x Phys. Slashing
✔	2	Squirrel	Beastkin	Fire	Somersault Slash Fire Line AOE	Scamper Haste AOE
✔	3	Lamb	Beastkin	Blunt	Fleece Butt Blunt Line AOE	Lullaby Sleep + Sleep Res. ↗ AOE
✔	4	Pugil	Wavekin	Water	Screwdriver Water Cone AOE	Water Wall Magic Vuln. ↘ + Paralysis Res. ↗ AOE
✔	5	Opo-opo	Beastkin	Blunt	Stone Throw Phys. Blunt AOE	Pins and Nails Unaspected + Paralysis
	6	Dodo	Cloudkin	Earth	Fowl Stench Earth + Blind AOE	Strut Earth Res. ↘ + Blind Res. ↗ AOE
✔	7	Coblyn	Soulkin	Lightning	Bestial Thunder Lightning	Vulcanize Phys. Vuln. ↘ + Poison Res. ↗ AOE
✔	8	Diremite	Vilekin	Piercing	Deadly Thrust Phys. Piercing + Poison	Silkscreen Unaspected + KB + Bind+ Line AOE
✔	9	Megalocrab	Wavekin	Water	Drenching Blow Water AOE	Bubble Shower Water + Water Res. ↘ Cone AOE
✔	10	Wespe	Vilekin	Piercing	Sharp Sting Phys. Piercing + Poison	Final String Phys. Piercing, scaling up with lower target HP
✔	11	Vulture	Cloudkin	Wind	Wing Cutter Wind Cone AOE	Bloodcurdling Caw Wind + Dispel + Bonus Familiar TP per Dispel AOE
✔	12	Mandragora	Seedkin	Blunt	Budbutt Rampant, Phys. Blunt	Heirloom Scream Unaspected + Heavy AOE
✔	13	Geshunpest	Ashkin	Lightning	Dark Thunder Lightning AOE	Odium Life Siphon AOE
✔	14	Puk	Scalekin	Piercing	Fireball Fire AOE	Tail Chase Phys. Slashing + KB AOE
✔	15	Crab	Wavekin	Water	Bubble Shower Water Cone AOE	Hundred Fists Familiar Auto-attack Delay ↘
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	17	Slime	Ashkin	Unaspected	Digest Unaspected, + Beastmaster HP	Syrup Unaspected Bind+ AOE
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✔	19	Bat	Cloudkin	Unaspected	Blood Drain Unaspected + Beastmaster HP	Ultrasonics Unaspected + Accuracy ↘ + Cleanse AOE
✔	20	Flying Trap	Seedkin	Ice	Sour Sough Wind + KB + Poison AOE	Necrotic Nectar Unaspected + Magic Vuln. ↗ AOE
	21	Ziz	Scalekin	Ice	Ice Breath Ice AOE	Petribreath Unaspected + Petrify AOE
✔	22	Sabotender	Seedkin	Piercing	Natural Needles Phys. Piercing Line AOE	Hypodermic Hustle Damage ↗ + Ally DoT AOE
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✔	25	Adamantoise	Scalekin	Lightning	Bestial Thunder II Lightning AOE	Harden Shell Phys. Vuln. ↘ + Petrification Res. ↗ AOE
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✔	27	Uragnite	Wavekin	Ice	Frost Breath Ice Cone AOE	Gas Shell Unaspected + Poison Cone AOE
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✔	29	Spriggan	Soulkin	Fire	Romp Fire Cone AOE	Frenetic Flurry 7x Phys. Blunt
	30	Goobbue	Beastkin	Blunt	Beatdown Phys. Blunt AOE	Moldy Sneeze Unaspected + Sicken AOE
✔	31	Gigantoad	Wavekin	Blunt	Bestial Blizzard II Ice AOE	Sticky Tongue Phys. Blunt + Draw + Accuracy ↘
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	33	Coeurl	Beastkin	Lightning	Blaster Lightning	Charged Whisker Lightning + Paralysis + Lightning Res. ↘ AOE
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✔	36	Treant	Seedkin	Earth	Acorn Bomb Earth + Nightmare AOE	Arboreal Storm Wind + KB AOE
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	38	Chimera	Beastkin	Slashing	The Lion’s Breath Fire AOE w/ bonus vs. Deep Freeze	The Ram’s Voice Ice + Deep Freeze + Ice Res. ↘ AOE
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✔	40	Ghost	Ashkin	Wind	Fell Gale Wind + Doom Chance Cone AOE	Curse Unaspected + Bonus to Diseased + Doom Chance AOE
✔	41	Salamander	Wavekin	Water	Brackish Rain Water AOE	Peculiar Light Unaspected + Magic Vuln. ↗ AOE
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	50	Behemoth	Beastkin	Lightning	Thunderbolt Lightning AOE	Meteor Fire AOE