Karbuncle: I really don't see how you can make BST more useful without MOAR NUMBERS. It's a DD. It can fill no other role. I asked before for it to be made into a tank - tanks are in a bad place but at least if BST was tailored to be a tank (with proper shields and proper shield skill, more ability to heal pet, more ability to shed hate onto pet or pull hate from pet, put hate from party members on pet etc) it could potentially have a party role other than "LOLPETBURN"

The master needs to be made stronger regardless. It's the only way to avoid making pets overpowered. They also need to give pets real buffs - your example with COR buffs is laughable because you ignore that no real (non pet burn) party is ever gonna choose buffing small portion of one job's DD output (pet buff) over boosting every DD's output. That's asinine. It was a stupid idea to make those buffs the way they are - it's stupid to keep them that way.

If, for some reason, I had to say what would do the most for BST outside of MOAR numbers - it would be allowing pet to get all party buffs like any other party member, vastly reducing the damage it takes from AOEs when not the target of the boss, and significantly boosting its resistance to status ailments. Giving us a JA which would allow us to remove status ailments from our pets without the reward timer being used would also help.