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Beast locations for Beastmaster’s bestiary in FFXIV
Final Fantasy 14's Beastmaster job has been fully released with patch 7.56, and Polygon has published a guide detailing how to unlock the job and where to find creatures for its "Master's Bestiary." Like the earlier Blue Mage limited job, Beastmaster is designed mainly for solo content and cannot be used in standard duties, dungeons or quests, so players must first roam the game world catching monsters before they can properly fight with the class.
To unlock Beastmaster, players need to have cleared a set list of earlier bosses, then speak to the Excited Adventurer NPC in New Gridania to begin the quest "Strangers in the Wood." Creatures are captured by using the Catch ability before defeating them, logging them in the bestiary so they can be assigned to summon horns for battle. Beastmaster also gains its own solo challenge mode, the Crucible of the Unbroken, mirroring Blue Mage's Masked Carnival, and Polygon notes its location list remains a work in progress as more monsters are verified.
In short
- FFXIV's Beastmaster job is now fully unlocked in patch 7.56.
- Players must catch and log monsters before using them in battle.
- New solo challenge mode, Crucible of the Unbroken, added for the job.
Explained simply
Final Fantasy XIV is an online role-playing game in which players explore a large fantasy world, take on quests and fight creatures. Its jobs are specialised roles with their own abilities. Beastmaster is a job built around capturing creatures and calling them into battle.
The job is a limited one, like Blue Mage: it is designed mainly for solo play and cannot be used in standard group duties, dungeons or quests. Players build a bestiary by catching creatures around the world, then use entries from it to summon them with horns. Beastmaster also has a solo challenge mode, the Crucible of the Unbroken.
The bestiary matters because finding and capturing creatures is central to learning how the job works. Players need to meet earlier game requirements before starting the unlock quest, and guides to creature locations may change as more are confirmed.