Quote Originally Posted by machini View Post
I was under the impression the entire reason for BST spam was not so much the damage as the fact that the pets didn't instantly die to all the massive AoE damage that kills your average DD who is a glass cannon and refuses to put on -DT.
Well that's more of the reason for any job out of range vs melee. whether it be any of the pet jobs or mage jobs or even rng though the enmity update really killed rng popularity. Part of the reason of love for pet specifically is while generally not ideal (largely due to keeping hate off the geo you'd want debuffing) you could get away without the whole pld+healer in the pt. Though you generally should still have had some sort of tank tp at divert some of the dmg from the squishier pets you could set up a bst to be one or even better auto to be one. You can still basically do the same thing except smn for the DD.