Beastmaster (Final Fantasy V)



The Beastmaster, also known as Trainer or Mediator, is a job in Final Fantasy V obtained after the Fire Crystal shatters. It is the only job aside from Freelancer that can equip whips as a weapon, allowing the Beastmaster to attack from the back row for full damage, as well as the added benefit of either paralyzing the enemy or casting a spell on them.

Beastmaster is one of the only jobs to be able to equip the rare Kornago Gourd. Beastmasters focus mainly around catching and releasing enemies from a gourd in battles for various abilities for a one-time use, as well as using the Control command to make monsters in battle fight for them.

Mastering Beastmaster for all four characters in the iOS version earns the player the achievement "Catch and Release".

Appearance
The Beastmaster dresses up in wool and some even take the ram's horns. Bartz, Galuf and Krile have the same costume, although Krile's is more covered. Faris appears to be wearing earmuffs and has a tail and Lenna has a headdress and a puffy collar.

Abilities
The Catch command lets the player capture an enemy during battle, provided the target has less than 1/8 of their total HP remaining. The Kornago Gourd reduces this to 1/2 HP. If the player really wants to catch a particular monster, one may wish to try Gravity or the Blue Magic spell Missile, both of which reduce the health of the foe considerably without killing it, allowing the character to catch it more easily.
 * Job Command - Catch
 * Innate Abilities - None
 * Equipment - Knives, Whips, Light Helmets, Clothes, Armlets

Once the player has caught something, the monster can be released to have the captured creature attack Summon style. For unknown reasons, most summoned creatures do a Strong Attack when they are released (which does thousands worth of damage, even in the First World).

Of note, the Equip Whips ability gives characters the Beastmaster's base Strength and Agility unless otherwise already at a higher value.

Calm is bugged; it is effective against enemies that are not Magic Beasts.

Upon mastery, Freelancers and Mimes gain the Beastmaster's base Strength, Agility and Stamina unless they already have a higher base from another mastered job.

The base stats for Beastmasters are:
 * Strength: 37
 * Agility: 25
 * Stamina: 32
 * Magic: 21

Trivia

 * When a character catches a monster in the Super Famicom, the enemy name should be displayed on the Status menu under the Catch header, but the field is left blank for the version 1.1 of the RPGe translation. The reason this is happening is because the enemy names table was stored in another location within the data. Also, the length of the monster names were 8 bytes, but was expanded to 10 bytes.

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