I often find my self wondering what type of job bst was meant to be when SE designed it. This topic of conversation isn't as simple as saying Warrior is a DD, Paladin is a tank, and White mage is a healer.
With no real support abilities or magic that leaves dd and tank. By just looking at the job it appears to be a melee type dd with focus on a pet for added damage or defense. But the FF community has made it much more then that(well mostly into a solo job). So much so that I'd love to know what the original concept was for bst.
I usually like to guess what SE was going for with job development by looking at the artifact armor sets, but it didn't help me much in this case. AF1 is aimed at just charming. AF2 was the same with a bit of call beast love. And empyrean armor is purely DD. Then there is the bst only armor(khimaira,bison) with MP+ on it to add even more wtf to my identity crisis.