Quote Originally Posted by Zekander View Post

I do not play BST myself, so I can't really say what the job is capable of. However, one of the jobs I do play is WHM, and I have done various content both with and without BSTs. From a WHMs perspective, content done with BSTs is done stupidly easily and completed much more quickly then a non-BST party. Playing WHM in sinister reign with a party consisting of three players in melee range (one tank and two DD) is an absolute NIGHTMARE, I could not cure stats fast enough when I even had time between spamming Curaga to keep them alive, which inevitably led to me taking hate and dying. The same content played with BSTs led me to nearly fall asleep, the only thing I could even do to support the party was cast Dia II, there was no need to cure the tank as he took so little damage (since most of the time the pets had hate anyway) that he could easily keep himself cured, and most of the time would use echo drops before my silena would even land. From this perspective BST trivializes almost all content, this is UNBALANCED.
I just don't understand this thinking at all. You think BST and SMN should deal the same damage when SMN has so many additional abilities? That would be like saying RDM, SCH and WHM should do the same damage as BST, while curing, buffing, debuffing. It's ridiculous.

And this trivializes ALL content? Really? I've played BST for around 11 years and this is the first time EVER I've heard of BST being even useful in End Game content, much less preferred.