Quote Originally Posted by Camiie View Post
"Pet job" is not a group role. DPS/DD, Tank, Healer, and Support are group roles. A job/class in a group based MMO needs to fit effectively into one or more of those categories. So again which do they fall under?

My real question is why do you insist jobs must fill one of the DPS/tank/healer/support role in MMO. Ever since SWTOR a lot of the AAA MMO have been trying to move away from the traditional group roles in MMO. Classes in GW2 are hybrids and they can change roles depending on the build/situation. All 4 classes in TESO can be played as DD/tank/healer/support depending on how you want to play it.

If I remember correctly I think EQN may move away from DPS/tank/healer/support as well.

Pet doesn't need to fill one of it's job roles, and DD role isn't the only place it belongs. It can have multiple functions in event. It can act as ranged dmg DPS instead of melee only, it can function as tank. It can CC.

I believe in order to fix BST, pet's dmg and mechanics needs to be changed(instead of master's) They also need some other utility that makes a difference. If they can get AoE WS as strong as fell cleave, or survive ability close to PLD, and ranged dmg close to RNG, it can be a pretty useful hybrid even in delve.

Give pets some utility moves such as potent def/eva down and it can be a viable support.

BST can at least fill DD(both melee and ranged), tank, and support with current mechanic, the only thing it can't do is heal.

Imagine this, you're doing marj on a pet job, you pull NM with pet and use AoE move to clear them real fast, on more dangerous NM such as T5 or megaboss you summoned a tank pet and have it tank the NM while other RNG kill it. You also do def down/eva down with pet's specialty on all NM for faster kill speed.

Even if BST can only do 65% dmg of SAM, I fail to see why you wouldn't bring one in such situation.

Come on, be creative. Making every job that can do the same dmg as sam isn't the only way to accomplish balance, more like the most boring way.