First off, I'm not going to try and campaign for radical changes to beastlords and how they work, or point out some of the problems they have. What I want to do is have a civilized discussion about beastlords and reguards to companion health and strength items at the upper stages of the game. To my knowledge, the mask off of Taeshlin is the highest Comp Strength item in the game for beastlords. Thankfully this has BST on it, but it is very obviously a caster item and using it over something such as even the Mask of Pallor Reflections is a hit to a BST's stats. Would it be possible to get the mana on it lowered and coverted to hitpoints to be more friendly to beastlords since they obviously just got slapped onto a caster item? And honestly, 200 mana on something from a mob on Taesh's level is a little rediculous - throw in all the other caster friendly stats and this becomes a crutch for caster face pieces for a long time. Here's the Taesh mask:
The big problem I have though is Companion Health, which to my knowledge the best a beastlord can obtain is level 5. Is there even any big companion health items in the high game for pet classes? The puppet of the father has Health 7 on it, but none of the classes who can use it rely on pets nearly like beastlords and even necros/mages do. It isn't right when the best beastlords (or any class for that matter) has to continually swap in and out items to benefit from their focus effect and highlights the need to revamp some of the focus effect itemizations.
I guess what I'm asking for is that a higher level of Comp Health appear on some upper level item which has an equal benefit to all who can use it, not just be a caster mask with beast slapped on it for effect or vice versa. I'm sure not everything from Thaz has been overturned, and there very well may be an item in the game with Comp Health 7 on it, but then wouldn't there be a huge gap between something which is droppable like Mantle of Resonation (CS 5) and something from Thaz.
EDIT: I see beasts have access to Comp Str 7 now on their Thaz Boots...however I would still like to see the above mentioned change on the Taeshlin mask applied.

The big problem I have though is Companion Health, which to my knowledge the best a beastlord can obtain is level 5. Is there even any big companion health items in the high game for pet classes? The puppet of the father has Health 7 on it, but none of the classes who can use it rely on pets nearly like beastlords and even necros/mages do. It isn't right when the best beastlords (or any class for that matter) has to continually swap in and out items to benefit from their focus effect and highlights the need to revamp some of the focus effect itemizations.
I guess what I'm asking for is that a higher level of Comp Health appear on some upper level item which has an equal benefit to all who can use it, not just be a caster mask with beast slapped on it for effect or vice versa. I'm sure not everything from Thaz has been overturned, and there very well may be an item in the game with Comp Health 7 on it, but then wouldn't there be a huge gap between something which is droppable like Mantle of Resonation (CS 5) and something from Thaz.
EDIT: I see beasts have access to Comp Str 7 now on their Thaz Boots...however I would still like to see the above mentioned change on the Taeshlin mask applied.