Been saying it for years and no one listens. At the VERY least change beast healer and repair merits to do the same thing as empathy, it's all we ask. Players have buffs, pets have none, in any event players need buffs to be effective (most events) the pets aren't. If every time we used reward/repair it transfered 5 buffs over to our pet, problem solved, now the pet has buffs!

Not that you have to, you just have to take the extra tag that exempts pets form buffs off them. We know it exists since sambas hit pets when they were added, until you specifically went in and added the "Not targetable by sambas" tag manually in an emergency maintenance. But since we know you won't do that, at least add Empathy for the other pet jobs. We have to constantly use the pet healing abilities to keep them alive anyway, since you also put in the "Not targetable by cures spells" tag on them as well....

Funny how Arcanist and SMN have none of these issues in FF14... It's almost as if you acknowledged it as a major game breaking problem and corrected it... in an entirely different game.