Quote Originally Posted by Dekusuta View Post
What would cause your BST pet to die so easily? You keep going back to timers, but a BST pet has so much more HP, they have gear that multiplies their reward ability and pet foods that heal instantenously. They can /heal away from the pet, they can heal their pet, and most importantly hate isn't provisional even when a pet dies because they can transfer hate to the new one. Then on top of that, they get a hold of ~40% PDT. That's just insane.

A good BST will often have call bst timer up while fighting and yes, they falter when their pets are slaughtered quickly, but the list of mobs that can do that to them would slaughter a SMN pet and the SMN as well. Probably far more easily.

There's absolutely no eqivalency, SMNs have lost a lot of ground and after this latest round of items being tested
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/17017; it's embarassing we're not getting anything more useful.

And I still fail to see what your personal views on BST being underpowered has anything to do with my OP suggestion recommending Stout Servant be applied in full rather than pro-rated on the portion of the damage not mitigated by the avatar's PDT. That is, to effectively boost the PDT to 56.7%

I never thought asking for ~3% extra PDT could illicit so many words.

Every done Flux 7 or 9 in WoE? Those are almost all magical damages. And yes, BST can heal their pets. But guess what, Reward also has a timer and it cost gilz to use per reward. Mulsum is another option too but that also cost a lot of gilz (!10k per on my server). So again, yes, they can heal their pet but at the expense on GIL while we can heal with both MP on some of our avatars or gilz (mulsum) on all. When a BST lost their pet, they're stuck with the timer and in many of today's events, they dont have much options whereas a SMN can just resummon and the cost is next to nothing.

Again, my reference point are for all the newer events - WoE and VW and not the Abyssea or old content or on leveling.