Quote Originally Posted by Karbuncle View Post
Yes and no.

It depends on the situation. If you're in an Exp party, if you're any good you'll be out-DDing your pet. VV/RR/Apoc does more for master than pet because of Weaponskills like Rampage. your pet will keep up, But a good BST will out-do his pet, even gearing for the pet. (gear like ACP body, AMK Head or Spurrer's, etc), The Master, if any good, will still out-DD his pet, maybe not always during TP phase, but the WS phase will be like a 10 to 1 split because of how Epic Rampage is with Razed Ruins/good gear/macros/intelligence/etc.

If you're a solo-er BST (lets face it, most of us are...) Then the idea of BST would be keeping your pet alive, and keeping the Call beast timer up when needed.

This is why Im inbetween Killer and Callbeast/Reward. Killer Effect+5% Combined with Ferine Body+2 would increase my Damage by about ~5% when im in a party/event situation. While Reward/Call-beast would increase my pets survivability and my own when soloing.

Before Abyssea I would (And did) go with 5/5 Callbeast/Reward. I still have those, Its just always been a thought about Killer mErits due to the Bodys Augment.

It depends on your majority playstyle, But there are two sides to the BST coin, your solo and group playstyles.
I agree it does depend your play style but I only realy use bst to solo or for sticking a pet on nms personaly or events. I use other jobs when I xp but I concur what your are saying.